Power vacuum in Bolivia as Morales calls on opposition to ensure calm

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LA PAZ: Bolivia's Evo Morales called on Monday (Nov 11) on the opposition that ousted him to 'pacify the country' after his shock resignation ...

LA PAZ: Bolivia's Evo Morales called on Monday on the opposition that ousted him to"pacify the country" after hisfollowing weeks of protests over his disputed re-election left a power vacuum in the country.

He said the opposition leadership had a"responsibility to pacify the country and guarantee the political stability and peaceful coexistence of our people."Morales, who was Bolivia's first indigenous president, said his opposition rivals, Carlos Mesa and Luis Fernando Camacho,"discriminators and conspirators, will go down in history as racists and coup plotters."

The streets of La Paz immediately exploded in celebration, with jubilant Bolivians waving the country's flag, but violence and vandalism later erupted overnight there and in El Alto. He gained a controversial fourth term when he was declared the winner of the presidential election by a narrow margin. Under the constitution, power then passes to the president of the Senate and the speaker of the lower house of Congress, in that order. But they have resigned, too.

 

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