{"id":59911,"date":"2020-01-27T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59911"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:06:36","slug":"bolivia-president-asks-all-ministers-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59911","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia president asks all ministers to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-696x392.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LA PAZ, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Bolivia\u2019s interim President Jeanine Anez<br>asked all her ministers to resign a little more than three months before a<br>general election, a statement from the presidency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news came just hours after communication minister Roxana Lizarraga<br>resigned in protest at Anez\u2019s decision to stand as a presidential candidate<br>in the May 3 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When assuming the interim presidency on Nov 12, Anez had said she had<br>no intention of standing for the full-time job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that changed on Friday when she announced her candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anez \u201chas decided to ask for the resignation of all ministers to approach<br>this new stage in the management of the democratic transition,\u201d said the<br>presidency\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement added that it was \u201cusual\u201d in an electoral cycle to have<br>\u201cadjustments in the working team of the Executive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours earlier, Lizarraga, who was appointed by Anez on Nov 13,<br>criticized the interim president for having \u201clost sight of her objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lizarraga said Anez had \u201cstarted to fall into the same evils\u201d as the party<br>of her predecessor Evo Morales, who resigned on Nov 10 following three<br>weeks of at times violent protests against his controversial re-election in<br>an October poll that the Organization of American States said was rigged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is not the path the citizenry has signalled to us,\u201d said Lizarraga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anez came only fourth on 12 percent in an opinion poll published on Sunday that was led by Morales\u2019s Movement for Socialism (MAS) candidate with 26 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAS headed the survey by Mercados y Muestras and published in the Pagina Siete newspaper, which was conducted before the party had announced the name of its candidate, former economy minister Luis Arce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anez said she will name a new cabinet of 20 ministers \u201cas soon as<br>possible.\u201d &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA PAZ, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Bolivia\u2019s interim President Jeanine Anezasked all her ministers to resign a little more than three months before ageneral election, a statement from the presidency said. The news came just hours after communication minister Roxana Lizarragaresigned in protest at Anez\u2019s decision to stand as a presidential candidatein the May 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}