Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Anez (left) and President of the Senate Monica Eva Copa, poses for a picture with a law to hold new elections in La Paz
BOLIVIA’S coup-installed President Jeanine Anez approved a law decreeing new elections yesterday — but barring elected president Evo Morales from standing in them.
She passed the Bill into law after it had been approved by both houses of parliament, despite these being dominated by Mr Morales’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). The Supreme Electoral Tribunal will set a date for the elections.
The measure follows Ms Anez’s decision to charge Mr Morales with sedition and terrorism over his alleged responsibility for mass protests by his supporters against the military coup that removed him from power despite an emphatic first-round win in elections held on October 20. The US-dominated Organisation of American States claimed there were irregularities in the election but did not provide evidence. The Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research’s audit found no irregularities.
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