March 4, 2023, 10:16 PM
March 4, 2023, 10:16 PM
The warning of a third trial for the events of 2019, this time against the Mayor of El Alto, Eva Copa, achieved a furious response from the mayor, who challenged Jallalla’s representative, Leopoldo Chui, to present the complaint before the Prosecutor’s Office; He also asked him not to make threats through the media.
“It is not just asking to appear in the media, no sir (Leopoldo) Chuy; I challenge you, go to the Public Mystery and report me if you have the evidence. do it! Don’t be a coward, it’s not just hiding behind the cameras”, launched the Mayor of El Alto.
On Friday, Leopoldo Chui, representative of Jallalla Bolivia, who lent his acronym for Copa to participate as a candidate in the subnational elections, asked the country’s main authorities to promote a trial against the Mayor for her participation in the events of 2019; He said that the ‘Coup III’ case should be opened and that there are two fully identified crimes.
He also pointed out that, if the President, Luis Arce, or the Vice President, David Choquehuanca, do not start the process, he, together with the assembly members of his party and the elected councilors File the complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office.
“I don’t know why you have to ask for an investigation, when you can do it directly; they are good at accusing, they should go to the corresponding instances”, Eva Copa challenged, when the journalists approached her with that issue.
Eva Copa was president of the Senate during the term of Jeanine Áñezalthough the relationship was always distant and, as the months progressed, it ended in a total break, in which there was no coordination.
Actually were two assembly members from El Alto, Eva Copa and Sergio Choquewho commanded the Assembly for one year: from November 2019 to November 2020, when they handed over their positions to their co-religionists, Freddy Mamani, in Deputies and Andrónico Rodríguez, in the Senate.
In April 2022, the Mayor appeared to testify for the so-called ‘Coup II’ case, but she did so as a witness and was not included as investigated.
