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Sanchez Wins Boliva Elections

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Former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada won last week's presidential election but failed to get more than half the vote, officials announced Tuesday, meaning he will face the second-place candidate in a deciding vote in congress.

Sanchez de Lozada, president from 1993-1997 and owner of Bolivia's largest mining company, will face Evo Morales, the leftist leader of Bolivia's coca farmers, in congress on Aug. 3.

With all the votes counted from the June 30 vote, Sanchez de Lozada had 22.46 percent of the votes, Morales 20.94 percent and retired army Capt. Manfred Reyes Villa 20.91 percent, the National Electoral Court said.

Morales is the leader of the coca farmers fighting the U.S.-backed effort to eradicate their crop, some of which is used to make cocaine.

Term limits prevented Jorge Quiroga from running again as president in this nation of 8.3 million people. Quiroga took over when President Hugo Banzer resigned last year after being diagnosed with cancer.

Agencies

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