LA PAZ, Jan 27 — Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Anez has asked all her ministers to resign a little more than three months before a general election. The news yesterday came just hours after communication minister Roxana Lizarraga resigned in protest at Anez’s decision to stand as a...
Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Anez receives a hug before a ceremony to announce her nomination as presidential candidate for the upcoming elections on May 3, in La Paz, Bolivia, January 24, 2020. — Reuters pic
Anez assumed the presidency on November 12, two days after Evo Morales resigned following three weeks of sometimes violent protests against his controversial re-election in a poll the Organization of American States said was rigged. Lizarraga said Anez had “started to fall into the same evils” as the party of her predecessor Morales.Anez was criticised for going back on her initial commitment not to run for president.
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