Overview
- The Supreme Court annulled the 10-year sentence against former interim president Jeanine Áñez with a 7–2 vote and ordered her immediate release from custody.
- Áñez left La Paz’s Miraflores women’s prison on Thursday, nearly five years after her March 2021 detention in the case known as “Golpe II.”
- Magistrates ruled she should have been processed via a juicio de responsabilidades that requires authorization from the Plurinational Assembly, typically by a two‑thirds vote.
- In its reasoning, the court said Áñez’s 2019 succession was an act of “constitutional necessity,” finding violations of the legal framework and due process in the ordinary-court trial.
- Opposition leaders welcomed the ruling, victims’ groups vowed to seek congressional action, and related 2019 cases such as Senkata and Sacaba have already shifted toward legislative proceedings as the country approaches the Rodrigo Paz inauguration.