Bolivia: Luis Arce takes office as the new president of the country in the presence of Felipe VI and Pablo Iglesias

Evo Morales’ MAS candidate, Luis Arce, took office this Sunday as the new president of Bolivia at the culmination of the swearing-in ceremony held in La Paz. Present at the event as representation of Spain were King Felipe VI, the Second Vice President of the Government and leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, and Arancha Gonzalez Laya, Foreign Minister. Arce, the 67th president in the country’s history, has promised to fulfill his duties as president of Bolivia with his hand on his heart. «We are the majority. This means that the population voted for peace and stability, hope and dignity, “he declared during his inauguration speech in which he harshly criticized the transitional government that, for a year, has guided the country after the forced exit. of the power of Evo Morales. “Despite the differences, we are obliged to stand up to the people. We are all Bolivia, I believe in justice, not in fostering an atmosphere of revenge. Where being from another political party makes you the object of hatred, “he added.” Our country faces a triple crisis: political, health and economic. In a year, all the conquests of the Bolivian people were regressed “, declared Arce, candidate of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) led by Morales, who has contributed his grain of sand to the ceremony with a message on Twitter.” They said: the Beasts, savages, violent ones will never return to Bolivia, while they killed our brothers, persecuted, detained, burned our houses and radios; and we have returned, peacefully, to recover the democratic homeland with only the conscience of the people.Morales announced this Saturday that he will return to his country on Monday, from which he had to leave in November 2019 amid protests due to electoral fraud and after losing the support of the Army and the Police. His priority, the pandemic During the electoral campaign, Arce He has made at least seven concrete proposals for the first months of his mandate, many of them related to the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences, and has promised to pay a Bonus Against Hunger of 1,000 Bolivians (122 euros) this same 2020 for citizens over 18 years of age who have no income. The initiative has already been approved by Parliament and will be financed by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and a family basket has been promised for those households where they live from the day and that would be delivered by the Armed Forces to guarantee food. In economic matters, Arce has promised that he will ratify the ban on layoffs, a regulation breached, he says, by numerous companies that have closed and laid off thousands of workers. In addition, in the event of a new confinement, the State will take charge of the payment of rents for people who do not have a fixed income.Arce has also promised to substitute imports, promote Bolivian production and thus reduce the amount of imported products to the extent of the possible. «For example, building two diesel plants in Santa Cruz and in Cochabamba. So we can produce our own diesel and stop importing, “he said in a recent interview. Likewise, the president promised the industrialization of natural resources such as lithium from the Salar de Uyuni, hydrocarbons and electricity.One of the most controversial proposals is a tribute for those who have assets of between 5 and 10 million dollars and that would affect 0.01 percent of the population.