The Government of Bolivia has affirmed that the criticisms of the European Union and the United Kingdom of the trial against former president Jeanine Áñez do not agree with “a relationship of mutual respect” and express “an unacceptable colonial position”.
The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Josep Borrell, criticized on Sunday the lack of respect for due process in the trial in which former president Áñez was sentenced to ten years in prison, under the Preliminary conclusions of the mission sent to Bolivia by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
However, for the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the EU “misrepresents and distorts” the UN conclusions “on which it claims to be based”. The Bolivian government has stated that the report from the United Nations office does not include allusions to the alleged lack of respect for due process in the Áñez process.
Also, he underlined “the broadest predisposition” of Bolivia for the UN to observe trials like that of the former president, taking into account that “under no circumstances” can there be “interference” in matters that concern only the Bolivian judicial system.
Áñez, in preventive detention since March 2021, was sentenced to ten years in prison for her role in the political crisis of November 2019, when the then president, Evo Morales, was forced to leave office due to pressure from the opposition. and part of the Armed Forces, which did not recognize the electoral results after the Organization of American States (OAS) detected possible irregularities.
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