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Junio 07, 2005
What Next?
Hormando Vaca Diez set a time for Congress (4 pm - Wednesday) to reconvene to address Mesa's resignation. However, he stressed that there needs to be guarantees that Congress can meet without pressures. He left the possibility of meeting in Sucre as a definite possibility.
Eduardo Rodriguez, the President of the Supreme Court, who is the third-in-line of Constitutional succesion, stated that if he became President it would only be as a caretaker. Elections would be called.
MNR and MIR have both publicly supported the idea of Vaca Diez assuming the Presidency, while MAS and ADN have come in support of calling new elections. Both parties have demanded and urged, respectively, that both Vaca Diez and Mario Cossio resign. New elections would open the door for the return of Tuto Quiroga, who everyone assumes is itching to return to Bolivia.
Meanwhile in La Paz, food supplies and gasoline have both been dwindling. Negotiations are taking place so that the Human Rights organizations can distribute food to areas in need in the capital. The military is now guarding water distribution plants after damage to several canals cut off water to several parts of La Paz.
Posted by eduardo at Junio 7, 2005 06:15 PM