Áñez abandons hearing in protest because she was denied a special trial

The interim president of bolivian jeanine anez He refused this Friday to continue in a virtual precautionary hearing in the case of an allegedly illegal appointment in a state company during his Government, in protest because his transitional mandate was ignored and he was denied a trial of responsibilities.

The hearing corresponded to the process initiated by the Government of Luis Arce for the allegedly irregular appointment made by Áñez in the state-owned Bolivian Food Company (EBA).

“In my capacity as former constitutional president of Bolivia, violated in all my rights by the MAS regime (the Movement to Socialism) and its political, prosecutor and judicial operators that you are, I dispense and dispense in this process of EBA, 2743, of my three lawyers who are trusted by me,” said Áñez in her speech.

Addressing the operators who accuse and prosecute her, she said that “they are not a competent court to prosecute a former president”, who is responsible for a trial of responsibilities, and recalled that “even a dictator had due process”, alluding to the deceased Luis Garcia Meza (1980-1981).

Áñez questioned whether the mandate she assumed in 2019 after the resignation of Evo Morales “to pacify the country” has been ignored while the MAS authorities “hid and covered up the electoral fraud, the power vacuum, the abandonment of functions and the escape of his boss”, alluding to the former president.

The ruling party points out that in 2019 there was a “coup” against Evo Morales and the opposition maintains that the protests that led to his resignation were due to fraud in his favor in the annulled elections of that year.

“So far I assume I have exhausted all internal actions and remedies to be duly processed in a trial of responsibilities,” he said.

“You do what you want. They can give me the death penalty if they want, or they can give me life imprisonment if they want, because although they are not in the legal system, to please your political bosses you can do it and do it, but enough is enough. Leave me alone, ”he added.

She also questioned that the lawyers and prosecutors who accuse her do not show their faces in the virtual hearings and criticized that the Justice allows up to five public officials “to appear to be different parties” when, in her opinion, they all belong to the ruling party and execute against them. a “lynching with the appearance of legality”.

Finally, in the absence of Áñez and despite the fact that the former president renounced having lawyers, Judge Heber Torrejón ordered her preventive detention for four months.

Áñez, confined in La Paz since March 2021, was sentenced last June to ten years in prison in the “coup d’état II” case for resolutions against the Constitution and breach of duties due to the way in which she was placed in the line of succession presidential after the resignation of Morales and the other authorities that followed him.

Initially, she was arrested under the “coup d’état I” process in which she is accused of terrorism and for which the governor of the Santa Cruz region, Luis Fernando Camacho, was also imprisoned a few days ago.

In addition, several unresolved accusations reside in the Bolivian Parliament, the most important being the death of more than twenty civilians in the so-called Sacaba and Senkata massacres in 2019.

Source: Elcomercio

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