A Bolivian court grants opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho 's transfer to house arrest after more than two years in pre-trial detention, allowing him to resume...

Former governor of Santa Cruz Luis Fernando Camacho is escorted by police as he leaves a court hearing regarding the length of his pretrial detention stemming from the crisis over the 2019 ouster of former President Evo Morales, in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Aug.

A supporter of suspended Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho blocks an anti-Camacho demonstrator, right, during a court hearing regarding the length of Camacho’s pretrial detention stemming from the crisis over the 2019 ouster of former President Evo Morales, in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Aug.

Suspended governor of Santa Cruz Luis Fernando Camacho is escorted by police out of court after a hearing on his arrest over charges of sedition and terrorism, in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Aug.

Wednesday’s court order applied to the last of two cases that landed Camacho, the conservative governor of Bolivia’s easternmost province of Santa Cruz, behind bars pending a trial.

He had already been ordered freed to house arrest on Tuesday in the most explosive case, alleging his involvement in violent unrest over the disputed 2019 reelection of socialist former President Evo Morales.

The ruling on a different but related case Wednesday confirmed that the suspended governor would be transferred out of jail to house arrest with work-release privileges, which allow him to resume his duties as governor of Santa Cruz for the first time since his 2022 arrest.

Camacho still faces trial in these two cases and charges in other investigations.

But his release from prison to a much milder form of incarceration injects a potentially volatile new element into Bolivia’s politics after a general election earlier this month signaled the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS party.

The order did not specify when the transfer would take place but Camacho’s lawyer said it could happen as early as Friday.

The judiciary’s sudden moves in long-stalled cases come as Bolivia’s right-wing opposition prepares to return to power for the first time in decades.