The polls are coming to the polls today Bolivan In the midst of a serious financial crisis to elect their next president in an election showdown in which the Right seems to be able to close the circle of the Left’s sovereignty in the country’s political affairs, which was opened twenty years ago by former President Evo Morales.

The country of the Andes of 11.3 million residents is voting today in the shadow of dollars and fuels, as a result of the economic crisis, and with a look at prices. Inflation on an annual basis reaches almost 25%, a record rate in 17 years.

The once supported by Morales, but now in conflict with him, outgoing the country’s outgoing President Luis Arsis, who is responsible for this situation, did not apply for a second term.

Andronicus Rodriguez, the president of the Senate also coming from the Left, and the candidate of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) in power since 2006 Edward Del Castillo, are far behind in polls.

“People have realized that in the last twenty years they have not served anything,” said Miguel Angel Miranda, a 21 -year -old student in La PAS. “The socialist model didn’t work,” he says.

In this context, two right -wing candidates, among the eight who have come down in the elections, compete for the first place: 66 -year -old center -right businessman Samuel Doria Medina and 65 -year -old right -wing former President Jorge Kiroga.

The latest polls credited to the first 21% of the vote and the second 20%, compared to 5.5% predicting that Andronicus Rodriguez and 1.5% Edward Del Castillo. These rates are calculated on the basis of the entire electorate.

No surprise, the two favorites are expected to face the presidency in a second round of presidential elections on October 19th.

Both promise to change the state model established by Evo Morales, a prominent figure of the Latin American left. Under his chair (2006-2019), poverty has declined and GDP tripled, but the decline in gas revenue since 2017 has plunged the country into crisis.

“Things go bad, there is no gasoline, diesel, gas,” says 47 -year -old street saleswoman saleswoman in La Pas Satournina Sahuira, a native Aimara for years loyal to the ruling party, showing the frustration of a population who has been in the past.

“What people are seeking today is a return to stability,” said Daniela Osorio Michel, a researcher at the German Institute of World and Regional Studies.

In addition to the president and vice -president, almost 8 million Bolivia voters are voting today to elect the new members of their two bodies.