Ruler · 1953 – present

Carlos Mesa

Born 1953, living; politician, writer. President of Bolivia (Bolivia), 2003 – 2005.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: since 1953; living
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Bolivia
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Bolivia

Bolivia · the 78th of 83 dated reigns · 1825 – 2025

74 before

Hugo Banzer1997 – 2001

Jorge Quiroga2001 – 2002

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada2002 – 2003

Carlos Mesa2003 – 2005

Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé2005

Evo Morales2006 – 2019

Jeanine Áñez2019 – 2020

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 2003 – 2005 · 2 years · came to it aged 50

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: resigned

Mesa resigned in June 2005, though not before ensuring that the heads of the two legislative chambers renounced their succession rights, facilitating the assumption of the non-partisan Supreme Court judge Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé to the presidency.

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