Polls closed in Bolivia's most suspenseful general election in two decades on Sunday, in which the right is tipped to win power after nearly 20 years in opposition.

Ballot counting got underway after eight hours of voting for president and for both houses of parliament, held against the backdrop of a generational economic crisis.

The Andean nation's ailing economy has seen annual inflation hit almost 25 percent with critical shortages of fuel and dollars, the currency in which most Bolivians keep their savings.

Pre-election polls showed voters poised to swing right, 20 years after Evo Morales was elected the nation's first Indigenous president on a radical anti-capitalist platform.

"The left has done us a lot of harm. I want change for the country," said Miriam Escobar, a 60-year-old p

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