Overview

• The Tribunal Supremo Electoral confirmed that no candidate met the threshold to win outright, setting a second-round vote for October 19 between Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga.
• Preliminary Sirepre tallies with about 90% of ballots counted showed Paz leading with roughly 32% of votes and Quiroga at about 27%.
• Samuel Doria Medina, who finished third with nearly 20% of the vote, pledged to back Paz in the runoff, reshaping coalition-building ahead of October.
• The MAS candidate Eduardo del Castillo plunged to around 3%, marking the party’s worst electoral showing since it first took power in 2006.
• Null ballots surged to nearly 19% after Evo Morales urged supporters to invalidate their votes and provisional legislative results point to a fragmented Congress that will challenge the next administration.