The new president of Bolivia was elected – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Sputnik news website, “Rodrigo Paz”, a moderate and right-wing senator, was elected as the new president of the country in the presidential elections in Bolivia.

Paz’s election comes after two decades of left-wing socialist rule in the midst of Bolivia’s severe economic crisis..

Paz is 58 years old and won 54.5 percent of the votes in the second round of the presidential election. By presenting an economic program based on reducing government expenses, especially fuel subsidies, as well as strengthening the opening of the private sector and promising to implement the concept of “capitalism for all” based on decentralization and financial discipline, he managed to attract public votes in his favor.

On the other hand The difference between the two main figures of the Socialist Party of Bolivia made the current president Luis Arce and the former president Evo Morales unable to nominate a single candidate to participate in the elections..