Jorge Quiroga

President of Bolivia

5 May 1960 Cochabamba, Bolivia

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7 August 2001 – 6 August 2002 Acting: 1 July 2001 – 7 August 2001

62nd President of Bolivia, 36th Vice President of Bolivia In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Quiroga and the second or maternal family name is Ramírez. Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez (born 5 May 1960), nicknamed Tuto Quiroga, is a Bolivian politician who served as the 62nd President of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002, previously serving as the 36th Vice President of Bolivia from 1997 to 2001 under President Hugo Banzer, assuming the presidency following Banzer's resignation due to terminal illness, Quiroga was a candidate in the 2005 and 2014 presidential elections, in which President Evo Morales was succesffuly elected for a first and third term respectively. In both elections, Quiroga for the Christian Democratic Party. In the 2020 presidential election, Quiroga ran as a candidate for the Libre21 coalition, but withdrew his candidacy on 11 October 2020 (seven days prior to the election) along with two other candidates in an unsuccessful attempt to unify the Bolivian opposition and prevent the socialist MAS-IPSP candidate Luis Arce from emerging victorious.