La Paz: The National Assembly of the Plurinational State of Bolivia will this Tuesday issue its response to the resignation letter submitted by President Evo Morales and his Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, Prensa Latina reports.
Amid the violence unleashed by the coup against Morales, parliamentarians will rule on the issue after days of confusion and indefinite strikes that have impacted the population and the country's economy.
On Monday, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, forced to resign by the military elite, left for Mexico, where he received political asylum given the threats to his life following the coup d'état executed on Sunday and the acts of violence recorded across the country.
Morales boarded an official Mexican plane at Chimore Airport, in Cochabamba, where years ago he began his trade union and political career.
Before boarding the aircraft, the president sent a message of encouragement to his people through Twitter.
'Sisters and brothers, I am leaving for Mexico, grateful for the generosity of the government of that sister nation that granted us asylum to protect our lives. It hurts to leave the country for political reasons, but I will always be alert. Soon I will return, with more strength and energy,' he stressed on his Twitter account.
Before resigning, Morales strived to prevent the escalation of violence in the country and clashes between supporters of the MAS and opponents by submitting the recent election results to an OAS audit, but an apparent political move by that body became the final blow of the coup plan.
Yesterday there were claims on social networks that the Bolivian electoral system was hacked, presumably under US orders, to vary the results at the polls and blame Morales and his followers for fraud in the elections of October 20, where they won with more of 47 percent of the vote.
Further protests are planned today, including a call to mobilize by teachers and education personnel in La Paz and in the city of Alto, where the police and armed forces arrived yesterday with a strong deployment of light military vehicles and numerous troops to repress popular protests.
On Monday, the so-called 'Ponchos Rojos', a peasant militia with a long tradition of struggle, deployed and threatened to advance towards the governmental and legislative headquarters in La Paz.
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