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Warsaw’s Mayor and presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski celebrates exit poll results during the presidential election night in Sandomierz, Poland, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Aleksander Kalka)Warsaw’s Mayor and presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski celebrates exit poll results during the presidential election night in Sandomierz, Poland, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Aleksander Kalka)

Voters cast their ballots at polling stations opened in the first round of Poland’s presidential elections in Warsaw, on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)Voters cast their ballots at polling stations opened in the first round of Poland’s presidential elections in Warsaw, on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Facing the prospect of a humiliating defeat in Bolivia’s presidential election in August,, who assumed office in 2020 and was expected to seek a second term, said Tuesday he would withdraw from the race.

The decision, announced in a lengthy late-night televised address,

, where Arce and his erstwhile ally, formerAfter the court rejected his annulment request, Simion said in a post on Facebook that the Court “has continued the coup!”

“We have no choice but to fight!,” his post read. “I call on you to stand with me, today and in the coming weeks!”Sunday’s tense vote was held months after the same court voided the previous election in which the far-right

led the first round, following allegations of, which Moscow has denied.