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The mayor of El Alto, Eva Copa, participated this Sunday in the honorary session of the Municipal Council in tribute to the 37th anniversary of the El Alto city. During the meeting, which was also attended by President Luis Arce, the authority called for unity and described Jeanine Añez’s administration as “de facto government.”
“We have decided to make three municipal pharmacies that will be available to all the people of El Alto. Unfortunately, in the pandemic, due to a de facto government, a rigid quarantine has been entered and many people of El Alto lost their lives because they did not have money to buy medications,” Copa said.
The mayor reviewed some of the city’s historical events, including the fight in the Gas War of 2003 and the “recovery of democracy and freedom” in 2019.
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“Unity is going to move all of us forward. I ask you, the social organizations that are with us today, to put aside your differences, we cannot continue to be divided, there cannot be two or three Fejuves (Federation of Social Vecinales), there cannot be three or four (associations) of parents. El Alto needs them to be one and as one we are going to leave,” he concluded.
Copa was president of the Senate during the transition year. Her position and her refusal to resign from office made it possible to call general elections again in 2020, after Evo Morales annulled the October 2019 elections. During that year, the former Assembly member went through criticism of the Masista old guard and her alignment with the process. exchange.
She was a member of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), but was expelled from the party in January of last year, for which she ran for subnational elections with the Jallalla group. She has since expressed the opinion that she considered the events of 2019 as a “planned coup”.
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“Our country has gone through a very difficult time. Legally there were gaps, I don’t think that the directors of the Senate and of Deputies have resigned because they wanted to resign, there was persecution. (…) The police riot, the military ask for the resignation, it has It was a planned coup, I don’t think since October and November of last year, but from a long time ago. For me it has been a planned coup and it has been a forced succession,” he said last year. in interview with page seven.
This position already generated some criticism in February, when he said that Añez’s trial will set “a precedent” so that “no authority can pass or surpass our Constitution.” Then, assembly members of the Citizen Community (CC) and We believe him They recalled that he co-governed with the former president.
