Events leading to Bolivian president Evo Morales leaving office had all the features of a coup d’etat, Russia’s deputy foreign minister has said. But Moscow will be working with interim president Jeanine Anez until the election.
“We view everything that preceded the power shift [in Bolivia] as actions that equal a coup,” Sergey Ryabkov told reporters at the BRICS summit in Brasilia.
The Deputy Foreign Minister reminded that there was no quorum in the Bolivian parliament when Anez was declared interim president.
“But it’s clear that she will be perceived as the leader of Bolivia until the issue of electing a new president is settled,” he said.
