Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Bolivia is headed to a presidential run-off election between a center-right politician and a right-wing candidate after voters on Sunday rejected another term of the Movement for Socialism, which has governed the country for nearly two decades.
According to preliminary results from the South America nation's election commission, Sen. Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 57, of the Christian Democratic Party, had 1.6 million votes for 32.1% of the vote share, followed by former rightwing interim President Jorge Quiroga, 65, who garnered 1.3 million votes for 26.8% of the vote tally.
Neither received enough votes to win the election outright, necessitating a run-off in October, as was widely anticipated.
Eduardo del Castillo, 36, candidate for the ruling Movement for Socialism, finished sixth in a contest of eight candidates, with 159,769 votes, for a little more than 3% of of the vote.
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