Page Seven / La Paz
Faced with impunity in cases of femicide and rape, the first opposition political force, the Citizen Community (CC), reiterated its proposal for judicial reform.
This alliance proposes the modification of nine articles of the Political Constitution of the State (CPE) to renew the Public Ministry and the Judicial Branch.
The orange alliance affirms that the partial reform of the Magna Carta could be finalized until June of this year.
The articles of the CPE that are proposed to be modified are 178, 182, 188, 187, 194, 197, 198, 227 and 228. In addition, this force proposes that, together with the work of partial reform of the CPE, a list of applicants for the senior positions of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Judicial Branch.
“This constitutional reform could be finalized until June 2022 through an ALP law approved by 2/3 of votes, submitting the text of the reform to a referendum together with a list of candidates for senior positions in the Public Ministry. and the Judicial Branch, so that it is the sovereign’s vote that simultaneously defines the approval or rejection of the new appointment mechanism and the first group of high-ranking fiscal and judicial authorities,” reads the CC proposal disclosed by former President Carlos Mesa , maximum leader of the orange alliance,
Among the bases of the proposal of this political force are the following: Guarantees of judicial independence and creation of a Citizen Council of Notables.
