Evo Morales makes official his resignation from the presidency

The former Bolivian president Evo Morales made official on Monday the resignation he announced on Sunday in a speech in a letter in which he claims that it is a “forced resignation” resulting from a “political, civic and police coup”.

“The first indigenous Government ends today with my forced resignation to the Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, product of a political, civic and police coup d’etat,” reads the letter, collected by the Bolivian newspaper Página Siete.

Morales has argued that his “responsibility” as “indigenous president and of all Bolivians” is “to prevent the coupists from continuing to persecute and harass” their supporters, mentioning the indigenous people and the leaders of their political party, the Al Movement Socialism (MAS).

“Today, the humble, the workers, the Aymara and Quechua and indigenous people from the lowlands began the long road of resistance to defend the historical achievements of the first indigenous Government,” he said.

“Today is the moment of solidarity, tomorrow will be the moment of reorganization and the step forward in this struggle that does not end with these sad events. The slogan is to resist tomorrow to fight again for the homeland,” he sentenced.

According to the Reuters news agency, Morales’s resignation face, dated November 10 in the Tropic of Cochabamba, has already reached the Legislative Assembly, the first step to end the power vacuum.

Already this Monday, Morales has spoken via Twitter to demand the opposition “to assume its responsibility to pacify the country and guarantee political stability and peaceful coexistence.”

The former president has echoed the first episodes of violence after his departure from the Burned Palace. In La Paz and El Alto there have already been riots. In these 21 days of protests, at least three people have died and hundreds have been injured and arrested.

K. Tovar

Source: dpa