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Evo: Mesa's Resignation Not Enough

Submitted June 6, 2005 - 11:00 pm by Al Giordano
ATB news agency ("After The Bell," a Spanish-language business journal) has just reported that Bolivian Congressman Evo Morales says that President Carlos Mesa's resignation (or "offer that Congress accepts his resignation - to report this precisely, that's the same thing Mesa did on March 7th and in the end did not resign) "is not enough.

Here is a translation of the report:

Evo Morales, leader of Bolivia's leading opposition party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS, in its Spanish initials), said today that the resignation of the country's president, Carlos Mesa, announced today, is not enough, and also called for the resignation of the Senate President and Speaker of the House.

Morales told the press that the country's presidency must be taken over by the president of the Supreme Court "to set the dates for new elections."

The Bolivian Constitution says that in case of the resignation of the president the post must be taken by the Senate President or the Speaker of the House. If both decline to take the job, the executive branch falls into the hands of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...

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