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Bolivians react to country’s first conservative president elected in decades

(20 Oct 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS La Paz, Bolivia - 20 October 2025 1. Newspaper headliners with results of Bolivian election 2. Man holding two newspapers 3. Man reading newspaper 4. Close of newspaper headline 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Heredia, local resident: “At the center of all this, we have a new president. Many Bolivians are hopeful that Bolivia's economy will return to what it was before.” 6. Vendor showing newspaper 7. Close of newspaper reading (Spanish): "Rodrigo Paz Pereira is the president-elect of Bolivia" 8. Various newspapers with election result headlines and graphs 9. Various of vendor showing newspapers 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudio Gonzales, newspaper vendor: “Hopefully with him (president-elect Rodrigo Paz) and (Paz' running mate and former police captain, Edman) Lara, Bolivia can be lifted. We don't want to suffer; we don't want to be down.” 11. People exchanging newspapers 12. La Paz streets STORYLINE: Bolivians woke up to the news that centrist Rodrigo Paz will be the country's next president, paving the way for a major political transformation. This comes after almost 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, party, or MAS, and during the nation’s worst economic crisis in decades. Paz and his popular running mate, ex-police Capt. Edman Lara, galvanized working-class and rural voters outraged over record inflation and an acute dollar shortage that has sapped food and fuel supplies. Paz won 54.5% of the votes, early results showed, versus his rival, former right-wing President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga's 45.5%. Riven by internal divisions and battered by public anger over the economic crisis, MAS suffered a historic defeat in the August 17 elections that propelled Quiroga and Paz to the runoff. For all their disillusionment with MAS, Bolivian voters seemed skeptical of Quiroga’s radical 180-degree turn away from the MAS-style social protections and toward an International Monetary Fund bailout. “At the center of all this, we have a new president. Many Bolivians are hopeful that Bolivia's economy will return to what it was before," said Mario Heredia, a local resident. Claudio Gonzales, a newspaper vendor, said he hoped the country could rebound with Paz and his running mate at the helm. "We don't want to suffer; we don't want to be down,” Gonzales said. Paz’s victory sets this South American nation of 12 million on a sharply uncertain path as he seeks to enact major change for the first time since the 2005 election of Evo Morales, the founder of MAS and Bolivia’s first Indigenous president. Although Paz’s Christian Democratic Party has the cushion of a slight majority in Congress, he’ll still need to compromise to push through an ambitious overhaul. AP video shot by: Carlos Guerrero =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: [email protected]. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...