translated from Spanish: “Uruguay only recognizes presidents from elections”: Chancellor

Montevideo.- Uruguay’s Chancellor, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, told Efe on Wednesday that his country only recognizes “presidents who have emerged from elections,” referring to Jeanine’s self-proclaiming interim president of Bolivia last Tuesday. The minister’s statements come days after Uruguay called Evo Morales’ resignation to the Bolivian Presidency a “coup d’état.”

“Uruguay only recognizes presidents arising from elections,” Nin Novoa said through an instant message sent to Efe.La Uruguayan Chancellery last Monday issued a statement, in which he ensured that the institutional break and the resignation of the representative plunged the country “into chaos and violence.” Uruguay considers that there is no argument to justify these acts, in particular having announced a few hours earlier President (Evo) Morales intended to call new elections, based on the report issued by the electoral mission of the Organization of American States” (OAS), the letter states. The Uruguayan Government also made “an urgent call” to all Bolivian actors to “cease acts of violence” and for the electoral process to “be directed in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the laws”, in order to restore the rule of law and respect “full human rights”. On Tuesday, he assumed the interim presidency of Bolivia in a parliamentary session with the absence of the representatives of the official Movement to Socialism (MAS), an Evo party Morales.La opposition senator comes to power provisionally in a convulsive country, with the military on the streets, eight dead and nearly five hundred wounded since the failed elections of 20 October, in one of the worst crises in Bolivia’s recent history.

Añez. / Senate of Bolivia.

Morales on Sunday confirmed his resignation from the presidency after nearly 14 years in power, in a video from somewhere undetermined, having cascaded down most of his government, in the face of the wave of protests of recent weeks. When announced his resignation Morales lamented a “civic coup” and that the police had relegated to their barracks in recent days. 

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