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La Paz, March 27 (EFE) .- The Minister of Justice of Bolivia, Iván Lima, announced that the ordinary trial against the former temporary president Jeanine Áñez will begin this Monday for the case known as “coup d’état II” that had been suspended in February.
Lima described this Sunday in an interview on the state channel Bolivia Tv as a “historic” moment the beginning of the trial against Áñez for the “coup d’état II” case, in which he is accused of the alleged crimes of breach of duties and resolutions contrary to the Constitution.
The minister pointed out that Áñez will face this process as a “former senator” and that she is accused of assuming the Presidency of the country in 2019 without complying with the Political Constitution of the State, among other regulations.
The start of the trial is scheduled to take place this Monday in the First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz and is expected to take place virtually.
Lima pointed out that the Bolivian government will advocate “due process,” while Áñez’s defense will see “permanent legal Chicanas, exceptions, incidents, and legal obstacles.”
He also emphasized that they are complying with the recommendations made by the Interdisciplinary Group of International Experts (GIEI) dependent on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Meanwhile, Carolina Ribera, daughter of Áñez, wrote on her social networks that she hopes that the Executive Branch, Minister Lima and President Luis Arce “stop interfering in the Judicial Branch” and that they “fulfill their commitment” with the IACHR and the UN special rapporteur, Diego García-Sayán, so that they respect due process.
He added that he hopes that “copying the abusive illegal and anti-democratic system of Russia, Nicaragua and Cuba” will stop.
BACKGROUND
This trial by ordinary means initially should have started on February 10, but a court suspended it the same day when it detected that some corrections had to be made to some procedures observed, just as Áñez’s defense requested a face-to-face trial.
For this case, former military chiefs William Kaliman, former Commander of the Armed Forces Flavio Arce, former Police Commander Yuri Calderón, among others, are also being investigated.
For this case, the former commanders of the Bolivian Air Force (FAB) Gonzalo Terceros and the Bolivian Navy Palmiro Jarjury underwent a brief trial, which implies an admission of guilt, and received a three-year sentence for the crimes of non-compliance. of duties and resolutions contrary to the Constitution as accomplices.
Jeanine Áñez has been in preventive detention for more than a year in a prison in La Paz amid health problems and is being prosecuted for another case called “coup d’état I”, in which she is accused of crimes such as terrorism and conspiracy, as well as for an irregular designation in the Bolivian Food Company (EBA).
The political and social crisis of 2019 was unleashed after the comments on the results of the annulled elections of that year that gave Evo Morales a fourth consecutive term, however; the then president resigned denouncing being the victim of an alleged coup d’état.
For the ruling party, Áñez violated the regulations of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to put themselves in constitutional succession and assume the Presidency after the resignation of Morales and all those who by law were authorized to lead the Executive, while the opposition points out that It is a constitutional succession.
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