Bolivia's interim leader Áñez confirms candidacy in election

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian period in-between President Jeanine Áñez, who changed former chief Evo Morales when he left the country, on Friday announced her candidacy in the country’s Would per chance 3 presidentialelection.

When she took place of enterprise on Nov. 12, Áñez said she her job as period in-between president can be convoking contemporaryelections to interchange Morales, although she didn’t explicitly rule out working in those elections.

“I gather made the choice to recent myself as a candidate,” she said. “Taking share in these elections wasn’t in my plans, however in recent weeks we had been willing to develop a consensus and we have not achieved one.”

The 52-12 months-extinct felony skilled postulated her candidacy at an match whereby Áñez’s Democratic Team spirit occasion announced an alliance with the occasion of La Paz Mayor Luis Revilla.

It became no longer confirmed that Revilla can be Áñez’s working mate, however the mayor said: “My occasion goes to give her all its strengthen. If she takes a step forward in her candidacy, it must be an honor to accompany her.”

Final Sunday, Morales announced that ex-Economy Minister Luis Arce Catacora can be his occasion’s presidential candidate in Bolivia’s upcoming presidential election.

Talking from self-exile in Argentina, Morales said the vice presidential candidate for his Motion To Socialism occasion can be David Choquehuanca, a former international secretary and esteem Morales a member of Bolivia’s Aymara indigenous neighborhood.

Morales, who ruled Bolivia for simply about 14 years, resigned the presidency in November when the police and armed forces withdrew strengthen after several weeks of demonstrations that erupted over allegations of fraud in the Oct. 20 presidential election that Morales claimed to collect obtained. The Organization of American States said its audit came across serious irregularities in the vote count.

An period in-between authorities took over after Morales left the country and annulled the October election, scheduled contemporary nationwide elections for Would per chance.

“The dispersion of the votes and the presentation of candidacies that did no longer unite Bolivians led me to make this decision,” Áñez said.