Move follows Evo Morales’s pledge to hold new poll after monitor said October vote must be annulled and after weeks of protests over allegations of fraud.

Embattled Bolivian President Evo Morales fled the capital La Paz and resigned after the head of the armed forces, Gen. Williams Kaliman, suggested that he leave power in the wake of an Oct. 20 presidential vote that electoral monitors said was marred by fraud.

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