Bolivia's parliament voted on 26 May to repeal a 2020 law that had tightly restricted the executive's ability to declare a state of emergency, paving the way for President Rodrigo Paz to deploy the military in support of police during civil demonstrations. The measure, backed by more than two-thirds of the lower chamber, was fast-tracked without standard parliamentary procedure and had already cleared the Senate. The move comes as Paz — in office for just six months — faces widespread road blockades and mass protests in La Paz (Bolivia's administrative capital), with demonstrators demanding economic relief amid the country's worst financial crisis in four decades and, increasingly, the president's resignation.