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The Palacio Legislativo where the Bolivian Plural Legislative Assembly is located. The Bolivian deputies voted a law of immunity against the crimes of the post-electoral crisis. CC BY-SA 4.0 Camil Mendoza

A controversial law has just been passed in Bolivia. The text would allow no political leader to be prosecuted for facts related to the post-election conflict.

With our correspondent in La Paz, Alice Campaignolle

Law of guarantee for the full exercise of the constitutional rights, it is the exact name of the law voted Friday, December 6th. Some call it simply the immunity law. After a marathon parliamentary session of more than 12 hours, the text was finally approved by the majority of deputies, from the party of the former president Evo Morales, MAS.

The text contains a provision " to guarantee the work of elected authorities " by prohibiting their apprehension and detention for facts related to the post-election crisis.

Veto of Jeanine Añez

As for the minority parliamentarians, including the one who is now president, this proposal is unacceptable. Gonzalo Barrientos , member of the Unidad Demócrata party in the Bolivian Plural Legislative Assembly, is scandalized: " We are all equal before the Constitution. And there, they vote a law that will benefit a few, to protect themselves from the crimes that may have been committed. "

Jeanine Añez, the interim president , has already announced that she will veto this text. She will not promulgate it. She sees the possibility for Evo Morales, not to be worried about the facts of electoral fraud of which it is suspected, but also for the organization, since Mexico, of the encirclement of the Bolivian cities. After a few days of calm in the country it seems that settlements of serious institutional tensions are now installed.