La Paz– The reconciliation and the Dialogue without impunity They are two of the electoral offers expressed by the two presidential candidates with a view to the ballot From October 19, after the election of this Sunday in which the left was defeated for the first time in 20 years in power.
Rodrigo Paz, with 31.7% of the votes in the first round, and Jorge “Tuto” Quirogawith 27.2%, they gave their first messages to Bolivia, with a socialist model that divided the population, and an economy in crisis due to the high public spending and inflation, serious shortage of dollars and fuels, according to reports.
The results that include the candidate for the leftist Alianza Popular, Andrónico Rodríguez, with 8.2% of the votes, is interpreted as a new stage in Bolivia.
Paz: Reconciliation and anti -corruption
Rodrigo Paz, a 57 -year -old senator and aspiring for the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) who surprisingly reached the first place for the ballot, said in his first statements that it is proposed to “build the reconciliation of the homeland, after promising fight against corruption.
“We need to stabilize, generate governance, generate a change in the economy so that the economy is of the people and not of the State,” he said and said that in the elections “Bolivia is not only asking for a change of government, it is also asking for a change in the political system,” according to agencies reports.
“You have to take care of the votes because if not, we do not generate a recovery of a transparent democracy, so that people feel confident of their institutions, and there will be no good governance in the future because there will always be the doubt that there was fraud, that there was something strange,” he added by thanking the support and urging to monitor the suffrage in the ballot and “win the second part honestly.”
Quiroga: Dialogue without impunity
Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, former president of Bolivia, 64, said, on the other hand, that “reconciliation is not to forget” when referring to the issue, while he said that “this first round is not the end, it is the beginning”, so he asked his fellow free party to “continue in the fight.”
“We do not come to give anyone impunity, but neither with thirst for revenge,” he said, and argued that “we have suffered too many divisions, too many invisible walls, we have wanted to separate us for all kinds of elements, by accent, for clothing, by history, by geography.”
During his statements, collected by agencies, he congratulated Paz for the campaign he made and that led him to first place for the ballot. “We give it applause,” he said. And he expressed words to the father of his contender, Jaime Paz, who presided Bolivia between 1989 and 1993, for “opening the doors to young people” when referring to the political opportunity he gave in his career.
