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With nocturnality and supported by his parliamentary roller. The Movement To Socialism (MAS) approved a bill in the Senate on Friday that seeks to safeguard its leader, Evo Morales; to his 'number two', former vice president Álvaro García Linera and the rest of the senior positions of the indigenous revolution appointed by the new authorities.

It has been baptized as the Law on Compliance with Human Rights , known in the first version as the Law of Guarantees, but more closely resembles an immunity shield with which it is intended to prevent Evo from being captured, if he decides to return to the country from his exile in Buenos Aires. The bill must now return to the Lower House as some new features have been introduced in the original text. Everything indicates that the deputies of the MAS, most also, will approve it without major difficulties.

With this law, the MAS wants that when Evo returns to the country he will not be arrested immediately , but that a process would be opened. "I am not going to make any law that goes against the Constitution and that violates the rights. I am going to do it and I am doing it," said Eva Copa , president of the Senate and leader of the moderates within the MAS. So far, Copa maintains a certain harmony with the provisional Government of Jeanine Áñez and also a clear discrepancy with Evo Morales. Copa did not even travel to Buenos Aires, like other moderate leaders, to call the leader 'Aymara' to close the ranks of the MAS around him.

The main objective of this controversial law, according to Copa, is to ensure that the families of about thirty fatalities in violent clashes after electoral fraud are compensated.

Political sources in La Paz assured EL MUNDO that the law has more symbolism than real effect . The moderates would be looking to placate the radicals of Evo, who are scheduled to meet today in Oruro, the land of their leader.

On the other hand, for Senator Óscar Ortiz , who left the hemicycle during Friday's vote, as well as the majority of opposition parliamentarians of the Christian Democratic Party and of the Democratic Unit, arbitrariness is being committed, so he has already announced that he will challenge So controversial law.

"This session has vices of nullity: the Constitution Commission that I preside over did not present a report, an essential requirement for its treatment. We want to make sure that there is not an attempt to give protection to those who have promoted the violence," said Ortiz, who was the senator who denounced the corruption between leaders of the MAS and the Mexican consultant Neurona, linked to Podemos.

The controversial law thus enters into a political and judicial labyrinth, since it can end up in the courts or under the magnifying glass of the Plurinational Constitutional Court. If President Áñez refuses to promulgate it, as is believed, Eva Copa has already advanced that it will be launched from the Senate itself.

The pulse between the MAS and the provisional government does not end much less with this law. Evo Morales, in one of his last messages from Buenos Aires, has insisted that the Presidency of Áñez ends on the 23rd of this month , at which time the legislature would end. "No organ of the plurinational state can extend the mandate over the Constitution. Those who extend it will violate the law and respond to justice," said the leader 'Aymara', who presided over the Andean country for almost 14 years. The first electoral round is called for May 3, but all the surveys carried out so far predict that a 'ballot' would be reached in mid-June.

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