Morales, who had pledged to respect the OAS audit, agreed on 10 November to hold new elections, at a date to be determined. Hours later he and his vice president Álvaro García Linera were forced to resign from office after losing support from the police, the Bolivian Workers’ Center and the military. The President of the Senate and the President of the Chamber of Deputies – both party allies of Morales – resigned on the same day, exhausting the constitutional line of succession. As a result, the second vice president of the Senate, Jeanine Áñez of the opposition Social Democratic Movement, assumed the interim presidency of Bolivia on 12 November 2019.
there’s definitely dispute over whether the elections were illegitimate (it seems at least the NYT first declared them rigged, then backtracked) but calling it a military coup is complete spin. he stepped down voluntarily in response to violent nationwide protests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_general_election
there’s definitely dispute over whether the elections were illegitimate (it seems at least the NYT first declared them rigged, then backtracked) but calling it a military coup is complete spin. he stepped down voluntarily in response to violent nationwide protests.