Rodrigo Paz

Bolivia has elected Rodrigo Paz, a 58-year-old economist and son of former President Jaime Paz Zamora, marking the country’s sharpest political shift in nearly two decades. The victory of Paz’s center-right Christian Democratic Party ends the long rule of the leftist Movement for Socialism (MAS), which has dominated Bolivian politics since 2006.

With 97 percent of ballots counted, Paz secured 54.5 percent of the vote in Sunday’s runoff, defeating conservative former interim president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, who trailed with 45.4 percent, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

The result signals the exhaustion of MAS’s political era, weakened by infighting, corruption …