Former President Mauricio Macri has repudiated, together with a group of former presidents, the 10-year prison sentence of Jeanine Áñez in Bolivia, for the crimes of dereliction of duties and resolutions contrary to the Constitution and laws within the framework of his rise to power in 2019 with the departure of Evo Morales from the country.

“It’s a made up accusation about a fact that didn’t exist. The former president is illegally detained. During his detention, this process was opened to him without any basis. They unveiled the charges with abrogated typifications,” they expressed in a statement from the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), which counts Macri among the signatories.

Former heads of state, including Sebastián Piñera (Chile), Carlos Mesa (Bolivia), Felipe Calderón (Mexico), stressed that the “constitutional transitional” government of Áñez was recognized by the international community. “Including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan, Turkey, Russia, China and countries in the region,” they stressed. .

And they criticized: “The European Union, the Spanish government, the UN and the Catholic Church acted as facilitators of the discussions between the transitional constitutional government and the Morales party. Thanks to this task, new elections were called and he was elected unanimously. to the new electorate.

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The leaders stressed that Áñez acted “in strict compliance with the Constitution” and that she recognized the result of the electoral process, for which she duly left office on November 8, 2020, when Luis Arce took office.

In this sense, they challenged the current Bolivian president: “President Arce denies his statements of recognition of the constitutional character of his predecessor, made when he was a candidate, thus calling into question his own legitimacy.

Áñez was sentenced by the first conviction court in La Paz to 10 years, in a trial that lasted three months for which she was detained for a year.

The former senator said she was innocent and it was a “show trial”. He also said he would act the same if what happened happened again. “The political power demanded an express trial to have an express condemnation,” he said of the court.

Áñez and former police and army chiefs have been prosecuted for unconstitutional decisions. The former senator has been blamed for actions she took when she was second vice president of the upper house to improperly assume the presidency.

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According to his defense, the former president should not have been tried in the ordinary way, but there should have been a trial of responsibilities in Congress, but the plaintiffs argued that actions prior to the leadership were tried.

“I had the government, but I never had the power. I had blockages in the (legislative) Assembly; it was simply a transitional government. In a year, they could have made any complaint to the Senate, but they did not; coordination,” he said.