Áñez asks for “forgiveness” for mistakes made in her interim government in Bolivia

The former interim president of bolivia Jeanine Áñez asked “forgiveness” this Sunday, the day on which he celebrates a year in prison, “for the mistakes” he made during his Government, after the political crisis of 2019, regretting that his administration has extended from three months to almost a year and for trusting “nearby” that “betrayed”

“After a year of being illegally and unjustly locked up, I apologize; I apologize for the mistakes made during the year of my Government, which should not have been a year but three months”he stated in a handwritten letter that he published on his social networks.

The text, in which it says to be “Kidnapped and imprisoned being innocent”, indicates that he regrets that his Administration has extended beyond the time that was initially set and assures that “the pandemic” forced to do so and that the measure was endorsed by the electoral body and Parliament.

When Añez assumed the Presidency as a result of the resignation of Evo Morales, after the annulled elections of 2019, took as central tasks the call for elections, which were later postponed twice, and the pacification of the country.

Already as interim president, it was decided to be a candidate, a decision that remained firm until a few weeks before the 2020 general elections.

“I apologize to the Bolivian people, for having trusted so many close ones who betrayed me and abused my trust, my good faith, lying and manipulating the truth, like hiding it and negotiating with our executioners to return to power”he mentions in another of the fundamental parts of his writing.

Although he did not name names, this can be related mainly, as he had already pointed out before, to some of those who were his ministers and who were linked to acts of corruption that damaged the reputation of his Government.

Añez He also explains that, despite all that, he intended to do “the best for the country”.

In the final part he emphasizes that “never” they will be able to seize his conscience and that he will resist and continue fighting “until the day God” allow it.

The former interim president completed a year of preventive detention this Sunday for accusations of alleged illegalities that she committed in the process that led her to the Presidency of the country, which according to the current Government and the Movement to Socialism (MAS), the party of Evo Morales, they were a “coup”.

The charges he faces in the processes called “coup d’état I and II” they range from terrorism, sedition and conspiracy to resolutions against the Constitution and breach of duties.

The ruling party questions that it has been placed in constitutional line after the resignation of the president, vice president and the heads of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to assume the Presidency instead of calling sessions in which the directives that, according to the MAS, should be recomposed They belonged to him by regulation.

He is also pointed out as responsible for the death of more than twenty civilians classified as “massacres” during his Government, an accusation that must be resolved by the Legislature.

The imprisonment of Añez in a prison in La Paz he has been marked by health problems such as hypertension, nervous breakdowns and depression, with moments in which he caused injuries or the hunger strike that he maintained for more than two weeks to obtain his freedom.

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