Overview
- The Supreme Court nullified the 10-year sentence for dereliction of duties and unconstitutional resolutions in the Golpe II case.
- Court president Romer Saucedo said the annulment requires Áñez’s immediate release from custody.
- The justices directed that, as a former head of state, she be tried in a political process before the National Assembly, as her defense had argued.
- The 2022 conviction concerned her ascent to the presidency in November 2019 after Evo Morales resigned during unrest following an election flagged by the OAS for irregularities.
- Áñez has been jailed for more than four years and said on X that the experience marked her but did not break her convictions.