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The government of Bolivia stated this Tuesday that the former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) intends to “shake the country“, after the announcement of sectors linked to the former president to carry out a “national lockdown”Of roads in rejection of the extension of the magistrates.
The Deputy Minister of Communication, Gabriela Alcónnoted that Morales “is trying to convulse the country” with these pressure measures, but the way out of the situation is for the senators and deputies of the legislative Assembly sit down and seek consensus to work on calling judicial elections.
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“Let’s think about the country, that’s what we said (to Morales), let’s think about our population, it doesn’t deserve a blockade, generating upheaval at this moment (…) these are blockades that harm the development of the region”, indicated Alcón.
He highlighted that the members of the assembly must seek two thirds for the pre-selection call to be made and go “quickly”to judicial elections.
He added that the impediments were not from the Government, but from other parties that “objected” the call, which paralyzed the process.
He emphasized that there must be a “constitutional exit” and that the alliance Evo Morales–Luis Fernando Camachoparty leader We believeIt is Carlos Mesaof the main opposition party Citizen Community “currently serves to reach agreements and hold judicial elections“Looking for professionals”adequate”.
On Monday, sectors close to Morales announced an indefinite national road blockade that will begin on Wednesday and demand that a “short law”to call judicial elections, in addition to the immediate retirement of magistrates.
Sectors linked to Morales held protests yesterday in the city of Sucrethe capital of Bolivia where the Judiciary is located, in repudiation of the extension of the magistrates’ mandate, since judicial elections were to be held in December last year, but there were obstacles in the process and this did not materialize.
The Constitution, in force since 2009, introduced elections to elect the highest authorities of the courts every six years Supreme Court (TSJ), Agro-environmental, Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) and Judicial Councilwith candidates pre-selected by two-thirds in the Legislature.
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In the 2011 and 2017 judicial elections, the majority of voters voted null and void in rejecting the cases, considering them manipulated by the legislative majority of the ADVANCE elect judges related to the ruling party.
The new elections were supposed to take place in December 2023, but the candidate pre-selection process was blocked in the Parliament, with a pro-government majority, before which the TCP decided to extend his mandate and that of other magistrates to avoid a “power vacuum”.
The government of Luis Arce He defended the extension and assured that it is not unconstitutional, while Morales, distanced from the president, criticized the Constitutional Court’s decision.
Source: Elcomercio
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