(14 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Alto, Bolivia – 13 August 2025
1. Samuel Doria Medina, presidential candidate for the National Unity Front, arriving at an election rally, banner in the background promoting a rival, Andrónico Rodríguez, presidential candidate for Popular Alliance
2. Doria Medina waving
++NIGHT SHOTS++
3. Doria Medina raising his arms
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, presidential candidate for the National Unity Front:
"And as we have said, in 100 days, in 100 days we will achieve stopping inflation. We will achieve the return of fuels. We will achieve the return of dollars."
5. Doria Medina supporters
6. Supporters cheering
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, presidential candidate for the National Unity Front:
"We have said it will be a government of austerity. The feast will be over. No more new cars, new cell phones nor trips."
8. Supporters
9. Supporter holds a banner with the colors of Bolivia’s national flag
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11. Bolivian President Luis Arce hugs and celebrate with former President Evo Morales
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12. Presidential candidate for the Free party Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga greeting a local vendor during election campaign
13. Quiroga with a potato vendor
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, presidential candidate for the Free party:
"What are we going to do? Be timid and mealy-mouthed, or make a radical change and recover the lost 20 years. I propose this: stability at first, radical change, change all the laws, attract investment, make free trade agreements, protect foreign investment, return to the democratic and free world."
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La Paz, Bolivia – 13 August 2025
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15. Quiroga supporters at rally
16. Supporters
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, presidential candidate for the Free party:
"Others say that Santa Claus is going to bring them money. No, Santa Claus doesn’t bring dollars. We are going to bring the dollars to save the economy."
18. Quiroga waving to supporters
STORYLINE:
The two front-runners for the Bolivian presidential election closed their campaigns Wednesday, with polls signaling a comfortable lead over the governing MAS party ahead of Sunday’s call to the ballots.
Businessman Samuel Doria Medina and ex-President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, are opposition options to the leftist governments that have presided over Bolivia during the past two decades.
The right-wing candidates are proponents of free-market economics and reject the Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS, strategy of nationalizing resources and redistributing tax receipts, which sputtered out with the end of the commodities boom.
The most recent polls show a tie between Quiroga and Medina, both having just over 20% of the voting intention.
Doria Medina, 66, a former minister of planning from 1991-1993 made his fortune in cement and owns Bolivia’s Burger King franchise.
Dubbed the “eternal candidate,” he lost to Morales in 2005, 2009 and 2014, as Bolivia’s natural gas windfall, underwritten by public investment and generous subsidies, buoyed the union leader’s popularity.
Then a young vice president, Quiroga became interim leader in 2001 when then President Hugo Banzer, Bolivia’s former military dictator, resigned because of terminal cancer with a year left in his term.
Instead, Morales is urging supporters to cast a null vote.
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