Аннотация: Jeanine Áñez with dignity enters the world history. A political essay.
Jeanine Áñez with a dignity enters the world history. A political essay.
In world history, there are not so many cases of voluntary self-removal from power with the intention to induce subordinates to request a return to power.
In Russia, there is an example of the departure of Ivan IV Vasilyevich to the Alexandrovskaya Sloboda (1565).
There is vague evidence of something like this after the catastrophic defeats of the Red Army in 1941, when - according to unconfirmed testimonies - Joseph Stalin for some time withdrew from management, was at his dacha, prompting a narrow group of senior officials to arrive (from the capital) and to ask him to return to his duties.
The Livonian War (1558 - 1583) ended in defeat. The Great Patriotic War ended in Victory in 1945.
Both wars were extremely difficult, accompanied by devastation and excessive casualties ...
What happened in Bolivia probably has no precedent in world history.
On November 10, 2019, everyone withdrew - Evo Morales (then President), Vice President, President of the Senate, President of the Chamber of Deputies, MPs from the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS), and other MAS officials, including the governors of various departments ...
The self-removal from power was not individual, not isolated, but massive (collective).
However, the Bolivian state has managed to save itself and to protect itself.
On November 11, 2019, the second vice-president of the Senate, Jeanine Áñez, took office as acting president of Bolivia, in time of the absence of a quorum in parliament on the basis of an act of the Constitutional Court, with the aim of organizing new elections.
The elections were successfully held (on October 18, 2020). (Jeanine Áñez did not participate in the elections).
For the inauguration of the new Bolivian President Luis Arce (the event is scheduled for November 8, 2020), the interim government under the leadership of Jeanine Áñez sent about 150 invitations to different states of the world.
'The inauguration, which will take place next Sunday, November 8 [2020], in La Paz will be as strict as possible ...
'... We have included the minimum possible, the necessary mandatory formal act and nothing else, because we understand this today, that democracy itself is a kind of (evening) party) [la democracia en sí misma es una fiesta], there is nothing more to celebrate, because people need the government to start working right away,' he said [the representative Movement for Socialism (MAS) Sebastián Michel].
The Government, by Decree 4381, has set a maximum budget of up to 2.5 million Boliviano to finance official events and other expenses related to the inauguration ... ' (https://www.paginasiete.bo/nacional/2020/11/1/pinera-el -rey-felipe-iglesias-asistiran-al-cambio-de-mando-273530.html) [unofficial translation]
The Transitional Commission receives information on the current governance processes, the status of activities, and some recommendations regarding the responsibilities that the new government should take on (https://www.paginasiete.bo/nacional/2020/11/5/jeanine -anez-dara-este-jueves-su-ultimo-mensaje-presidencial-273929.html)
The Bolivian state is in order! It is not devastated. Mass deaths have not befallen it ... It functions as efficiently as possible in conditions of the coronavirus pandemic, the global economic downturn and the persisting manifestations of confrontation between some political groups.
"... the outgoing parliament approved the report of the Special Mixed Commission, which recommends that the president and part of her cabinet be held accountable for the clashes in Senkata and Sacaba in November 2019" (https://www.paginasiete.bo/nacional/2020/11/5/longaric-denuncia-ante-la-oea-persecucion-anez-supresion-de-los-dos-tercios-273934.html) [unofficial translation]
Who are these people - who demand to bring to justice Jeanine Áñez, the savior of the Bolivian state? Aren't they the members of parliament who withdrew - when Evo Morales withdrew?
'... democracy itself is a kind of (evening) party [la democracia en sí misma es una fiesta], there is nothing more to celebrate, because people need the government to start working right away,' he said [the representative Movement for Socialism (MAS) Sebastián Michel].
The state is saved, it works ... Elections have been held ... People need the government to start working ...
Jeanine Áñez's behavior during the crisis is inscribed in the world history in golden letters as an example of dignified and effective government, managment in a crisis moment.
November 5, 2020 23:52
Translation from Russian into English: November 6, 2020 01:46.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Жанин Аньес с достоинством входит в мировую историю. Политический очерк'.