As Bolivia braces for long overdue snap elections, the political fight is intensifying, says Alberto Echazu, a journalist with La Resistencia Bolivia, explaining how the Anez government is trying to disrupt the MAS election bid and putting the country on the neo-liberal track previously avoided and denounced by ex-President Evo Morales.
On 21 June, Bolivia’s de facto interim president, Jeanine Anez, signed into law a bill authorising general elections on 6 September, despite previously being reluctant to set the exact date under the pretext of the COVID pandemic. The snap elections, which had been expected to be held on 3 May, were postponed because of the pandemic.
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