Candidates Rodrigo Paz, from the PDC (Christian Democratic Party) and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, from the Alianza Libre coalition, will face each other in the dispute for the president of Bolivia in the second round, on October 19.
The investigation of the first round, held on Sunday (17) shows that peace obtained 32.2% of the votes, while Quiroga added 26.9%.
Leading the polls, Rodrigo Paz called his supporters to mobilize for a “resounding victory” in the second round. During a public event on Sunday night, Peace asked his supporters to talk to the residents and gather support. He stated that his project is “from everyone and everyone” and that it is necessary to include the majority to govern hard.
Queiroga celebrated his arrival in the second round and congratulated him on the opponent after the announcement of preliminary results.
“Bolivia told the world that we want to live in a free nation. It’s a historic night,” he said in a public event after the announcement of preliminary results. Jprge Qele also emphasized that the country is moving towards “a better future” thanks “to the power of vote.”
Rodrigo Paz
With a trajectory marked by politics even before his birth, senator and candidate Rodrigo Paz seeks to follow in the footsteps of his father, former Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-1993), and write his story ahead of the Quema Palace.
Paz Pereira, who won the first round of presidential elections on Sunday and will play the second round against former President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, was born in 1967, thousands of kilometers from the Andes in Spain when his family was exiled during the period of military dictatorships in his country.
After his early years abroad, he studied in La Paz. He was 12 when his father was the only survivor of an alleged air strike.
He studied economics and international relations and obtained a master’s degree in political management from American University in Washington. In 2002, he joined Congress as representative of the Tarija Department, but between 2010 and 2020 returned to the homonymous city, where he first acted as councilor and later as mayor. In the last five years, he has served as national senator for the Citizen Community Alliance, led by former President Carlos Mesa.
Its campaign in Tarija, the main gas producing region and known as “The country’s pocket”, with its demands for autonomy, clarifies why its campaign focuses on the decentralization of the state to provide more budgets to departments.
The Government Plan of the Christian Democratic Party, entitled 50/50 Agenda, is organized around three pillars. The first speaks of a “asphyxiating” in which the state concentrates almost 85% of the national budget and defends a model that redistributes resources in half, one to the central level and the other for territorial entities and public universities.
Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga
Twenty -four years after becoming one of the youngest presidents in Bolivia’s history after three failed attempts, Jorge Quiroga seeks to return to the top of the executive.
The covenant candidate for Freedom and Democracy (competing under the name Libre) maintains his image of technocrat committed to economic openness, international markets, spending control and state modernization.
“Tuto”, as it is popularly known, was a member of the right opposition during the two almost uninterrupted decades of the movement to socialism (but). This Sunday, he advanced to the second round, on October 19, where he will face the first place of the first round, Rodrigo Paz Pereira.
Born in Cochabamba in 1960, Quiroga studied Industrial Engineering in Texas and obtained a master’s degree in Business Administration. He also worked for multinational IBM and returned to Bolivia in 1988.
His passage through the private sector in his country was brief before entering politics. Quiroga joined the Nationalist Democratic Action (DNA), a party founded by Hugo Banzer, with whom he sought to reach the milestone of returning to power through the polls.
