NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL
In a general election on August 17th Rodrigo Paz (pictured), a centrist senator, chalked up a shock win with 32% of votes; polling had predicted closer to 10%. He will run off against Jorge Quiroga, a right-wing former president who led his coalition to second place, on October 19th. And in third place? Spoiled ballots. Evo Morales, a former president who was forced out of the left-wing Movement to Socialism (MAS) and barred from running by a court ruling, had called for a “null vote” in protest. People listened. Eduardo del Castillo, the permitted MAS candidate, won just 3%—barely enough to maintain the party’s legal status. That marks the end of nearly 20 years of MAS rule, and blockures a rightward tilt for the country’s politics in October. ■
