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Significance
While a rebuff for the MAS leadership, the results reflect more disquiet over local issues than a rejection of President Luis Arce’s administration. Opposition figures now occupy six of the nine governorships across Bolivia.
Impacts
The government will seek to establish collaborative ties with specific opposition governors.
Departmental governments will compete for scarce funding this year and next.
Any further decentralisation of power will be strictly limited.
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