Jeanine Áñez

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Jeanine Áñez

Jeanine Áñez Chávez (born August 13, 1967 in San Joaquín , Beni , Bolivia ) is a Bolivian politician of the small liberal-conservative party Movimiento Demócrata Social . On November 12, 2019, she declared herself the Bolivian President pro tempore in order to fill the power vacuum within 90 days by the end of the planned new elections. After Lidia Gueiler Tejada she is the second woman to hold the office.

Career

Áñez Chávez is a lawyer. Since 2010 she has represented the northeastern Beni Department in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia , originally for the Plan Progreso para Bolivia-Convergencia Nacional party , which dissolved in 2014. She is considered a critic of Evo Morales .

On November 10, 2019, Morales resigned under pressure from protests. Since many of Morales' followers had also resigned, Áñez became interim president as the second vice-president of the Senate . At first, she only intended to arrange for new elections, which were finally set for the beginning of May 2020, but later decided to run for election herself.

Áñez Chávez is married to the Colombian politician Héctor Hernando Hincapié .

Events of the Interim Presidency

After the controversial presidential election in Bolivia in 2019 , Morales resigned. According to Article 169 of the Constitution, Vice-President Álvaro García Linera should have succeeded, but he also resigned. According to the constitution, the chairman of the Senate should have been Adriana Salvatierra or, otherwise, the chairman of the House of Representatives Víctor Borda . But they too resigned and the constitution leaves open what should be done in this case. Should the chairman of the House of Representatives take over, the constitution prescribes a new election within 90 days. As the second Vice President of the Senate, Áñez Chávez saw herself as the highest-ranking politician who could take over the presidency . On November 11, 2019, she declared her willingness to do this on a temporary basis and stated that her only goal was the new elections. She gave the date of January 22, 2020. This appointment has since been given up. The new elections should then take place on May 3, 2020. [outdated]

According to the constitution, the resignations and their appointment must be confirmed by parliament. A parliamentary confirmation was not possible on the first day of the session after the resignation, November 11th, because the members of the MAS boycotted the session, so that the parliament was not quorate. But because Morales and Linera had previously left the country and the aforementioned Adriana Salvatierra and Víctor Borda were not present on November 11, the Bolivian Constitutional Court confirmed within two hours that the resignations and the appointment of Áñez were no longer due to the given power vacuum must be approved by parliament. The court referred to a similar decision in 2001. A new parliamentary session on November 13th with the members of the MAS would have had a quorum again, but the police refused the members access to parliament. The police used batons and tear gas against the parliamentarians. Since then, no quorum parliamentary session has taken place. On November 19, Morales' Movimiento al Socialismo called for a joint session of both chambers of parliament , which the party of the interim president rejected as unlawful. Instead, Áñez announced “transparent elections” and “restoration of the country's democratic credibility” for the future.

Some Latin American politicians and some European media described the appointment of Áñez as interim president as a coup because the army leadership had put pressure on Morales to resign. However, it was argued that the military wanted to protect the constitution by calling on Morales to resign. Over 20 Morales supporters were killed in protests.

Áñez had Che Guevara portraits removed from the presidential palace, but not the Wiphala , the native flag preferred by Morales instead of the national flag, and initially only intended to arrange for new elections at the beginning of May 2020, but later decided to run for office himself. Due to the postponement of the new elections indefinitely, Áñez will remain in office beyond May 2020.

criticism

The politician, who is considered to be right-wing, asked on 13./14. November her cabinet before the critics mentioned that there was only one indigenous member . Other sources had pointed out for years that the Morales cabinet hadn't really made any difference in this regard with its two indigenous people in 2007 and that the longer Morales' government cared about the indigenous people.

After the change of government, Morales' site featured a 2013 Facebook post; In it, the staunch Catholic Áñez called the Aymara New Year celebrations "satanic". In October 2019, Áñez called Evo Morales a “poor Indian” in the sense that he clung to power and privilege; it was her comment on a cartoon, which was subtitled "Last Days". A post attributed to her that she dreams of a Bolivia that is free of Indians is probably a false report.

Web links

Commons : Jeanine Áñez  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Jeanine Añez declares herself interim president of Bolivia. In: Spiegel Online . November 13, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Bolivia: quien es Jeanine Áñez Chávez. In: Cronista.com . November 10, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Bolivia's President Evo Morales resigns after the police and the military turn away from him , NZZ, November 11, 2019
  5. ↑ Bolivia is looking for a way out of the crisis , NZZ, November 16, 2019
  6. ↑ Back to the Bible , SZ, February 10, 2020
  7. ↑ Political Constitution - Plurinational State of Bolivia . Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Berlin February 2013, p. 74 ( PDF ).
  8. ↑ Jeanine Añez Chavez. Cámara de Senadores, October 16, 2015, accessed November 11, 2019 (Spanish).
  9. ^ Evo Morales renuncia a la presidencia de Bolivia y denuncia un “golpe cívico, político y policial”. In: BBC.com . November 10, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 (Spanish).
  10. ↑ Jeanine Añez afirma que reemplazará a Morales solo el tiempo necesario para llamar a elecciones en Bolivia. In: AméricaEconomía.com. November 11, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ Bolivia elects new president at the beginning of May. Zeit Online, January 4, 2020, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Así fue la agresión contra legisladores del MAS en Bolivia. November 13, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 (Spanish).
  13. ↑ Coca farmers are planning further road blockades. In: dw.com, November 18, 2019, accessed at the same time.
  14. ↑ Why the case of Evo Morales was not a real military coup
  15. ↑ Bolivia is looking for a way out of the crisis , NZZ, November 16, 2019
  16. ↑ Back to the Bible , SZ, February 10, 2020
  17. ↑ Interview by Marian Blasberg and Jens Glüsing: "The virus created a feeling of equality". Corona crisis in Latin America. Der Spiegel, April 4, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Dan Collyns: Bolivia president's initial indigenous-free cabinet heightens polarization. In: theguardian.com, November 14, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019.
  19. ↑ Seven questions and seven answers on Bolivia under Evo Morales , Nueva Sociedad, January 2007
  20. ↑ How Evo Morales dug his political grave - the experience report of a Swiss woman in Bolivia , Luzerner Zeitung, November 11, 2019
  21. ↑ These are the anti-indigenous tweets that Bolivia's interim president deleted , AFP, November 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Áñez, Jeanine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Áñez Chávez, Jeanine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH San Joaquín , Beni , Bolivia