Luis Fernando Camacho, a Bolivian opposition leader, waves a Bolivian national flag in La Paz on Sunday after delivering a pre-written resignation letter at the Palacio Quemado [former presidential palace], Bolivia’s now former President Evo Morales to sign

‘Likewise, we ask the Bolivian people and mobilized sectors to shed attitudes of violence and disorder among brothers so as not to stain our families with blood, pain and mourning’, the general said, Reuters reports.
Kaliman stepped in after Morales agreed earlier in the day to hold a new election.
Morales, first elected in  2006, is head of Movement for Socialism, or MAS, the country’s socialist party.

Earlier on Sunday, a report from the Organization of American States (OAS), which conducted an audit of the October vote, revealed serious irregularities in the election won by Morales, which sparked widespread division in the country.

The dispute over the October 20 election triggered nationwide protests, resulting in three deaths and more than 300 injuries.
Police guards outside the presidential palace left their posts Saturday, allowing anti-government protesters to walk up to the doors of the building.

Morales was not in the building when police retreated, with some of them standing on the roof of a near by police station in a sign of growing discontent among security forces and that his presidency was in trouble.
Officials in the palace in La Paz were evacuated, leaving only a military presidential guard.
Bolivian police had became openly defiant a day earlier after protests appeared to be spreading.

Patricia Arce, of the governing Mas party, was dragged out of Vinto town hall on and subjected to four hours of degradation in which she was made to kneel and sign her resignation.

Morales, first elected president in 2006, was seeking to remain in power until 2025 after he took legal action to get around constitutional term limits.