Runoff elections across five Bolivian departments on Sunday confirmed a deeply fragmented political landscape, with President Rodrigo Paz's Patria coalition retaining only two of the country's nine governorships. Opposition forces of varying alignments won in Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca, Oruro, and Tarija, while the coalition linked to former President Evo Morales secured Cochabamba in the first round of voting on March 22. The results mark a dramatic decline from the era of Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) dominance — the party won six governorships in both 2010 and 2015 — and Bolivia set a historic milestone, with two women elected as governors for the first time. President Paz, who has been in office for just over five months, welcomed the outcome as the end of single-party rule and pledged to work with incoming regional administrations on reforms including a proposed "50/50" redistribution of state resources between the central government and the regions.