Bolivia election: Evo Morales's leftwing party celebrates stunning comeback. [45], After Áñez took office, the governments of Canada, Brazil, the European Union, Russia and the United States recognized her as the acting president of Bolivia.[46][when? After Morales resigned, angry supporters set barricades ablaze to close some roads leading to the country’s main airport on Monday, while the streets leading to the capital’s main square in front of Congress and the presidential palace were ringed with riot police and the military.

[116] Her government also severed diplomatic relations with Venezuela's Maduro government, giving its diplomats 72 hours to leave the country. “I have a message for the police and the armed forces: don’t stain yourselves with the blood of the people,” he said. Accusations of Fraud. A preliminary report based on the OAS audit of the vote said it had found “clear manipulations” of the voting system and could not verify a first-round victory for Morales. His resignation on Sunday created a power vacuum after the resignation of all other constitutionally-designated successors. [11] Her background has been described as poor mestiza and lower-middle-class.

Later the same month, Morales’ then host Mexico accused Bolivia of “intimidating” embassy staff working in La Paz after the Mexican government gave diplomatic protection to nine of Morales’ former ministers who faced criminal charges.

(AP Photo/Juan Karita, File) LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Interim President Jeanine Áñez on Thursday dropped out of Bolivia’s presidential election scheduled for Oct. 18, saying she wanted to avoid dividing the votes of people who oppose returning the party of ex-leader Evo Morales to power. [21][22], In 2014, Áñez made complaints about the government's lack of financial transparency.

FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the Latin American country’s year of turbulence. [111][112] The former head of the Cuban doctors program in Bolvia, Carlos de la Rocha, faces charges of breach of duties, destruction of documents, theft, and other crimes. In a public statement, minister for the Presidency Yerko Núñez said, "January 22 is a holiday by presidential decree. “The [interim] president has one mandate and that mandate is to call new elections as quickly as possible,” he said.

Morales’s vice-president, Álvaro García Linera, also resigned. On his arrival, he repeated allegations he had been forced to resign by a coup. He added that 20 other members of the government’s executive and legislature were already in the Mexican ambassador’s residence in La Paz. Available for everyone, funded by readers. He maintains his innocence. [140], On 17 September 2020, Áñez withdrew from the presidential race, saying the opposition needed to consolidate to beat front-runner Luis Arce, who represents Morales's Movement for Socialism. ", South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Shocking Gap Between Latin America's Presidential Salaries And Workers Minimum Wage", "The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency", "Evo Morales Lands in Argentina, Where He Will Be Granted Refugee Status", "Evo Morales resigns as Bolivia's president after OAS election audit, protests", "Bolivia: Interim president bars Morales from new elections | DW | 15.11.2019", "Montaño asume la Presidencia interina de Bolivia, Evo va a la ONU y hablará del mar", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=President_of_Bolivia&oldid=984478933, Articles needing additional references from November 2019, All articles needing additional references, Articles to be expanded from November 2019, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles containing Spanish-language text, Articles with Spanish-language sources (es), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 08:37. Protests begin after an unexplained pause in the release of early results, which show the election race is close between Morales and his nearest rival, former president Carlos Mesa. The end of tyranny. On 10 December it published its preliminary observations, based on interviews conducted with eyewitnesses. [8][9][10], Jeanine Áñez was born in the small Amazonian town of San Joaquín in the Department of Beni, Bolivia, on 13 August 1967. "Let's unite to reconcile, to build the Bolivia for which we are all fighting and so that one Bolivian is never above the other", Áñez said. All rights reserved. Running battles broke out in La Paz as Morales supporters, throwing rocks and wielding wooden planks, squared off against riot police who set off teargas into the crowds of demonstrators. Upon taking office in November, Anez said she was uninterested in standing for president in the upcoming elections. [133] On Twitter the next week, she announced that she and her son who had also tested positive were in good health. [75][74] Similar observations were also made during the Morales era. At least eight people have been killed in three weeks of clashes across Bolivia. Añez began planning to call new elections in 2020 as well as working to calm the nation and ordered military police to prevent large demonstrations and isolated attacks by individuals supporting the MAS party.

"[128] Áñez repealed the decree the next day. Afterwards, she greeted supporters from the balcony of the old Casa Quemado presidential palace rather than the 26-storey Casa del Pueblo skyscraper built by Morales, which opponents saw as an example of his excesses. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Bolivia had a "crisis in the administration of justice". Mesa accused Morales of engaging in “monumental fraud”. Shortly thereafter, large groups of people that supported Morales went into the streets. but added in an attack on opponents whom he had accused of a coup attempt: “Dark forces have destroyed democracy.”. “The massive electoral fraud attempt delegitimised Evo Morales, who had the right attitude and resigned in the face of popular outcry. But in a clear sign that she intends to steer the country away from the socialism of her predecessor, one of Añez’s first acts on Wednesday was to recognise the opposition leader Juan Guiadó as president of Venezuela – overturning Bolivia’s support for Nicolás Maduro under Morales. [87], On 6 March 2020, The Washington Post reported that "Since being sworn in, the fiercely anti-socialist Áñez has presided over the detention of hundreds of opponents, the muzzling of journalists and a 'national pacification' campaign that has left at least 31 people dead, according to the national ombudsman and human rights groups".

The report "reminded the Bolivian state that lethal force cannot be used merely to maintain or restore public order" and urged that those responsible be prosecuted, investigated, and sanctioned. The tally was putting Morales ahead of Mesa, his closest challenger, but well short of the lead he needed to avoid a second round. The president's monthly salary is Bs 24,251 ($3,520); that of a Minister of State Bs 21,556 ($3,130); and that of a Vice Minister Bs 20,210 ($2,930). "[11], Áñez attended the local school, a girls' school of which her mother later became director. [8], Before becoming a politician, Áñez was a media presenter[14] and director at Totalvisión. [8][11] Áñez passed the bar in 1991. In a message to Bolivia’s young people, she tweeted: “God bless you and allow us to be free and to hold transparent elections soon.”.

Jeanine Áñez Chávez[3] (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝaˈnine ˈaɲes]; born 13 August 1967)[4] is a Bolivian politician and lawyer. By request of the families, the amount is to be given in humanitarian aid (including 12 months of food) rather than a single payment. [8][157] Hincapié ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Colombian Senate in 2018, and as a member of the Tolima regional assembly and House of Representatives in 2010 and 2014 respectively. A 20-year-old student becomes the third person to be killed in the unrest since the disputed election.