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Jeanine Anez, who succeeded Evo Morales as interim president for a yr in 2019, has denounced the transfer as “political persecution.”
Bolivian police have arrested former interim President Jeanine Anez on costs of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy, a authorities minister mentioned Saturday.
Anez changed ex-President Evo Morales in November 2019 when he fled the nation amid widespread protests in opposition to his reelection to an unconstitutional fourth time period.
Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) social gathering, which is now again in energy, has claimed that Anez and her allies promoted his ouster after virtually 14 years in energy.
“I inform the Bolivian people that Mrs. Jeanine Anez has already been apprehended and is currently in the hands of the police,” mentioned Interior Minister Carlos Eduardo del Castillo in Twitter and Facebook statements.
The opposition has slammed the actions of the federal government, with one deputy, Edwin Bazan, saying the MAS social gathering had “mounted a judicial operation to implant the lie that there was a coup d’etat when what there was an [electoral] fraud.”
Anez herself wrote in a Twitter posting earlier than the arrest that the “political persecution has begun.”
Media studies mentioned two former ministers who backed Anez’ one-year caretaker authorities have been additionally in police detention.
Widespread protestsAt the time she took over the presidential put up, Anez was probably the most senior Senate official obtainable, with a number of of Morales’ allies in senior posts having fled amid the violent protests, which left 36 folks useless.
The leftist Morales himself on the time known as her “a coup-mongering right-wing senator” who had declared herself interim president “without a legislative quorum.”
The interim authorities tried to take authorized motion in opposition to Morales and a few members of his authorities, accusing them of rigging an election and suppressing dissent.
But Bolivia is now once more dominated by the MAS after it received a simple victory in a normal election in October 2020. Luis Arce, Morales’ chosen successor, is now president, and Morales himself has returned dwelling and brought over management of the ruling social gathering, which he based.