On Sunday, centrist Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff, beating conservative Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga , as the country’s worst economic crisis in decades ended almost two decades of leftist rule.

Paz, a senator from the Christian Democratic Party, won 54.6% of the vote, ahead of Quiroga’s 45.4%, according to early results from Bolivia’s electoral tribunal. But Paz’s party did not win a majority, forcing him to forge alliances to govern effectively.

The new president takes office on November 8.

The 58-year-old senator’s win marks a historic shift for the South American country, governed almost continuously since 2006 by Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism, or MAS, which once enjoyed overwhelming support from the country’s Indigenous majority.

Paz’s moderate platform — pledging to m

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