"Centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won Bolivia's presidential runoff on Sunday and will be the country's next president, marking a shift to the right after nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party. With just over 97% of ballots counted in the electoral court's preliminary tally, Paz Pereira secured 54.6% of the vote, while rightwing former president Jorge Tuto Quiroga received 45.4%."
"That is because Bolivia uses two counts: a quicker one, based on photos of each ballot sent to a data-processing centre, and the slower definitive one, in which every vote is publicly counted and scrutinised at polling stations before entering the system. The court has up to seven days to release the official results. A senator for the department of Tarija, Paz Pereira is the son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora, who governed from 1989 to 1993."
Rodrigo Paz Pereira won Bolivia's presidential runoff with 54.6% of the vote to Jorge Tuto Quiroga's 45.4%, based on a preliminary tally with just over 97% of ballots counted. The electoral court stressed the figures are preliminary because Bolivia uses a rapid photo-based count and a slower definitive public count, and the court has up to seven days to issue official results. Paz Pereira, 58, is a senator for Tarija and the son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora (1989–1993). He has held local and national offices, campaigned as an outsider after low early polls, and the vote passed peacefully with international observers present.
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