It is “a political action, so in reality there is no legal support and it is part of this strategy of destabilization and attrition,” affirmed the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada.
The headline, in an interview with state broadcaster Bolivia TV, reassured that forces resisting the process of change aimed at destabilization and government attrition from the start.
Prada has criticized the process proposal by former President Carlos Mesa’s group following the appointment of Eduardo del Castillo as government minister after he left office due to censorship in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly.
Current law provides that Arce can dismiss the ministers who are reprimanded, but also empowers him to reappoint them.
The minister pointed out that the tenor of the proposal was not known in the government at the moment, but that there were discrepancies in the ranks of the Central Committee.
While this lawsuit is being filed, on the one hand, a bill is being presented that aims to regulate the consequences of censorship, acknowledging that there are no regulations in force that determine the effects of this legislative process.
“One can say that since this is a political action, in reality there is no legal support,” he said.
Del Castillo was reprimanded, with votes by deputies answering former President Evo Morales, by CC and by Creemos, by Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, who is preventively detained in the high-security prison of Chonchocoro, in the department of La Paz.
Mesa shuns responsibility for his role as a facilitator of the 2019 coup attempt, Prada stressed, but continues to seek “not only a process of political destabilization but also a confrontation between Bolivians.”
The minister recalled that on October 21, 2019, 24 hours after the general elections, she had found the former CC presidential candidate at Viru Viru Airport in Santa Cruz. There he warned him about the irresponsibility of his actions because, Prada announced, he knew “with whom he would come to coordinate everything that is happening in Santa Cruz and that we were already living in Santa Cruz”.
“I told him that his hands would be stained with blood again and that he shouldn’t be irresponsible,” he said, referring to the El Alto massacre in October 2003, when Mesa was vice president of Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada’s government , and a massacre ensued that left more than 60 dead and hundreds injured. mgt/jpm