Former president urges Arce and Choquehuanca to seek political agreements to save justice

A call from the two main political authorities of the country To save the justice reform was the request of former President Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé to Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca, at a time when the process for a new election of authorities of the Judicial Branch began.

“I would call for reflection, starting with the President of the State, (Luis Arce) and the vice president, David Choquehuancaso that they have the sensitivity, the responsibility, to convene a large meeting or whatever you want to call it, to agree on minimum approaches to respond to the public regarding the much-lagged judicial reform,” said the former president in an interview with to the morning Correo del Sur.

On January 23, the collection of signatures began to promote a reform of the Constitution and change the form of election of the authorities of the Judicial Branch; this initiative is headed by a group of jurists. For its part, this Monday, the MAS, through its related groups, began a counter-campaign to invalidate that work.

According to Veltze It must be the citizens themselves that express themselves for this change deep, that does not go through some reforms to the Political Constitution of the State or some norms. He raised the need to improve the justice administration system through agreements that allow working without political interference.

“The less attended Power Organ was always the judiciary and It is reflected in several aspects, One is the budget, it has always been negligible, even less than some ministries. Another is the updating of the codification of the laws, the codes that govern judicial activity, most of the codes, today, are still the Banzer codes, out of date”, he reflected.

In November 2020 The Government invited personalities from the judicial field to form a “council of notables” that would design the path to judicial reform. This initiative did not go very far because, in three months, February 2021, it began to fade and in the end, the idea it was aborted.

A year ago the group of “independent lawyers” who seek judicial reform through the modification of the Magna Carta and, at this moment, signatures are being collected to promote a constitutional referendum, which should be held this year.