LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Centrist Bolivian presidential front-runner Sen. Rodrigo Paz is hoping to attract a diverse group of voters with catchall rhetoric to fix Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in decades. He's promising both social spending reminiscent of the outgoing left-wing government and an attack on the country's massive deficit.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, the self-styled moderate resisted rising pressure to clarify his policies with only weeks to go before a hotly contested presidential runoff against former right-wing President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga.

“It will be a pragmatic government, as pragmatic and diverse as the Bolivian people,” he told the AP from his art-filled apartment in an affluent neighborhood of La Paz, Bolivia's capital. “That's why my slog

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