Rodrigo Paz, who had trailed in the polls, won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, as decades of dominance by a leftist party neared an end.

Bolivia’s charismatic, long-serving ex-President Evo Morales told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn’t know what to do about threats by the right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they came to power.

Right-wing candidates are the frontrunners in elections marked by economic crisis and division in the socialist ranks.

Siendo un policía en la ciudad boliviana de Santa Cruz, Edman Lara saltó a la fama publicando historias sobre la corrupción policial en

Bolivia’s richest man went all out in this election cycle to publicly back a candidate that he thought could win the vote, unseat the ruling socialists and lift the nation out of acute economic crisis.

Amid economic collapse and political infighting, Christian Democrat pulls off surprise victory in presidential vote

Bolivia has entered a new stage in its life as a democracy after nearly two decades of dominance by the Movement for Socialism. In Sunday’s general elections, the ruling party suffered a collapse that stripped it of any chance to remain in power and left it clinging to survival as a political force with just over 3 percent of the vote.