Jorge Quiroga
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Jorge Fernando "Tuto" Quiroga Ramírez (born May 5, 1960) was President of Bolivia from August 7, 2001 to August 6, 2002. Quiroga was elected vice president of Bolivia in 1997 running on the Nationalist Democratic Action ticket with Hugo Banzer. At 37, he was the youngest vice president in Bolivia's history. He became President when Banzer resigned because of aggravated health problems. Quiroga assumed office as acting president on July 1, 2001 and was sworn-in on August 7, to complete the five-year mandate.
Quiroga ran for President in his own right in 2005, as the candidate for PODEMOS. His main opponent was Evo Morales of the Movement Towards Socialism. Morales won the election and Quiroga finished a distant second place, receiving 28.6% of the vote.
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External links
- [BBC profile]
- [Extended biography by CIDOB Foundation] (in Spanish)
- http://www.thebatt.com/media/paper657/news/2002/04/10/FrontPage/Bolivian.President.Honored-517621.shtml
- http://www.tutopresidente.org/sitio/tutopresidente
See also
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