Bolivia's long-ruling party was almost eliminated from Congress, final vote results show

Voters in Bolivia practically threw the long-governing party out of Congress, a final count released Tuesday showed, after presidential and parliamentary elections this month heralded a tectonic shift in this Andean country. In a devastating defeat, the Movement Toward Socialism party — which has ruled for much of the last two decades and held a supermajority in both houses of Parliament — lost its 21 Senate seats and all but two of its 75 seats in the lower house of Congress. “These elections really spelled the end of the MAS," said Diego von Vacano, an expert in Bolivian politics at Texas A&M University, using the Spanish acronym for the ruling party.