The former interim president of Bolivia questioned that the Constitutional resolution that rejected an appeal raised by her was “ventilated to the press” by the Minister of Justice , Iván Lima
The former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez (EFE/Stringer/File)
The former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez denounced as a “political interference” that the Government of Luis Arce reported on the rejection of the appeal that his defense presented to the Constitutional Court before they had been officially notified of that judicial decision.
In a message on her social networks, managed by her relatives, the president questioned that the Constitutional resolution that rejected an appeal filed within the trial that is being followed by the The 2019 crisis was “ventilated to the press” by the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, “before any of the parties was notified ”.
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“This is the political interference and corruption found in the @UNIndepJudges report on Bolivian Justice”, adds the message.
Áñez referred in this way to the document of the special rapporteur for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the United Nations, the Peruvian Diego García-Sayán, on the situation of Justice in Bolivia that was released these days by the Government of Maple.
The report recalls that when García-Sayán visited the country last February, “he was able to witness the atmosphere of confrontation and concern surrounding the case” of Áñez, who was precisely then on a labor strike. hunger before the beginning of one of the trials that the ruling party is promoting against him.
Bolivian President Luis Arce ( REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian)
“This case highlights structural problems in the administration of justice, such as the generalization of preventive detention”, indicates the García-Sayán report, which also emphasized that “All the persons prosecuted have the right to a fair trial and to all the procedural guarantees established by international instruments and Bolivian regulations”.
The day before, the Minister Lima informed the media about the decision of the Bolivian Constitutional Court to reject the appeal that Áñez’s defense had raised in the case of “coup d’état II” for which he is accused of the alleged crimes of resolutions contrary to the Constitution and breach of duties.
Lima affirmed that with this decision, the Constitutional Court “has eliminated the last legal obstacle that existed for the trial to continue, the arguments to be pronounced and the corresponding sentence to be handed down“.
Áñez has been in preventive detention in La Paz since March 2021 accused of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy for the 2019 post-election crisis that led to the resignation of then-president Evo Morales, who for the ruling party was a “coup d’état”.
The trial in progress is for another process, the so-called “coup d’état II”, referring to her actions when she was second vice president of the Senate to assume the Presidency in 2019 in an allegedly irregular manner, according to the ruling party, after the resignations of Morales and the entire line of presidential succession.
The process was paralyzed while the Constitutional Court ruled on the appeal filed by the former interim president.
(With information from EFE)