Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, has won Bolivia’s presidential election. Rodrigo Paz defeated conservative rival Jorge Tuto Quiroga, as the country’s worst economic crisis helped propel the end of nearly two decades of leftist rule. Paz won 54.5 percent of the vote, beating Quiroga’s 45.5 percent, according to early results from Bolivia’s electoral tribunal.

Paz’s party does not hold a majority in the country’s legislature, which will force him to forge alliances to govern effectively. The new president takes office on November 8. The 58-year-old senator’s win marks a historic shift for the South American country, governed almost continuously since 2006 by Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism, or MAS, which once enjoyed overwhelming support from the country’s Indigenous majority.