Road blockades, economic crisis, and social fracture are putting pressure on Rodrigo Paz’s government, as uncertainty grows over the country’s institutional stability.
With a dispersed electoral map and no dominant political axis, the elections revealed a more fragmented, territorialized dynamic that is difficult to frame within traditional national-level interpretations.
With the main political force absent and no narratives to structure the contest, the subnational elections are unfolding amid scattered candidacies and a disoriented electorate.
When the person who should be the president’s main ally decides to confront him publicly, Bolivian politics once again reveals a recurring fracture: that of the vice president who turns the office into a platform for opposition.
The electoral collapse of MAS after two decades of dominance marks the end of a political cycle in Bolivia and opens the way for Rodrigo Paz, who will assume the presidency in November after prevailing in an unprecedented runoff.
