A/HRC/43/2 1. Views expressed by the State under review on the recommendations and/or conclusions, its voluntary commitments and the outcome 483. The delegation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, headed by the Deputy Minister of Justice and Fundamental Rights, Erasmo Huberth Vargas Camacho, highlighted that the universal periodic review was an opportunity to illustrate the different policies that the Plurinational State of Bolivia had adopted for the protection of human rights. For this reason, the delegation stressed that the Plurinational State of Bolivia had received with a constructive spirit the 238 recommendations formulated to it and had assumed the challenge of implementing them. 484. After the presidential succession and the dialogue process that had taken place to pacify the country, the Plurinational State of Bolivia was proceeding on a fully democratic path and the Government had created spaces for dialogue to generate peace and respect for the differences and diversities existing in the country. 485. Following numerous allegations of fraud regarding the elections of 20 October 2019, the Organization of American States had carried out, at the request of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, an audit of the electoral process. Its findings highlighted a number of irregularities that put the integrity of the electoral results into question. The then President and Vice President of the country voluntarily resigned and sought political asylum in Mexico. The then President and First Vice President of the Senate and the then President of the Chamber of Deputies also resigned. This is why, in adherence to the process established by the Political Constitution, on 12 November 2019, the Second Vice President of the Senate, Jeanine Añez Chávez, assumed the Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia by constitutional succession. 486. Since taking office, the Government, with the agreement of broad sectors of Bolivian society, indigenous peoples, social movements and political parties, had focused on the pacification and reconciliation of the country and the organization of new free and transparent elections. This process led to the unanimous approval by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, integrated for more than 2/3 by representatives of the party of the former President, of the law calling for general elections. 487. All this demonstrated that there had not been any breach of the constitutional order in the country and that the resignation of the former authorities was a consequence of the discovery of an electoral fraud and of the following peaceful protests of the Bolivian population. 488. The delegation urged the international community to contribute to the achievement of the objectives outlined in the call for general elections: a free and transparent electoral process carried out by a new independent Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The commitment of the Government to contribute to the start of a new political and social cycle in the country was reflected in the announcement to allocate 10 per cent of the State budget to the health sector and to increase the budget assigned to the judiciary, with the objective of strengthening judicial independence and access to justice. 489. The Addendum submitted by the Plurinational State of Bolivia outlined the progresses, achievements and challenges regarding the recommendations received. The document had been broadly consulted with public institutions and civil society within the framework of the Inter-institutional Coordination Forum for the Drafting, Submission and Defence of Reports by the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Of the 238 recommendations received, the Plurinational State of Bolivia had decided to accept 206, take note of 31, and partially accept one. 490. The delegation stated that compliance with the recommendations noted did not depend only on the State’s will and detailed the reasons of its position on these recommendations. 80