June 20, 2023, 10:40 PM
June 20, 2023, 10:40 PM
The pre-selection process of candidates for magistrates of the country’s high judicial courts has already been paralyzed for 54 days and will have to continue waiting because the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) He just raffled the lawsuit two weeks ago, despite the fact that the deputy Leonardo Ayala presented in April.
“The precautionary measure is in force at this time, they raffled the file two weeks agothe 40-day period that they have to issue their sentence is elapsed,” said the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, when the journalists asked him about the status of the pre-selection of candidates for magistrates.
The pre-selection of candidates for the four judicial instances It has been paralyzed since April 27 and 54 days have already passed since then and until now there is no final judgment of the TCP on how this pre-selection should be addressed. The precautionary measure and the admission of the abstract unconstitutionality action raised by Deputy Ayala was published on April 27 of this year.
The minister Lima recounted a meeting they had this Tuesday with all judicial instances and reported that, in it, the TCP magistrates promised to issue the final ruling on this issue in a short time.
“Let’s wait in the next two weeks for a pronouncement from the Court that would be in relation to the deadlines established by Law 254, but it is important to have that sentence to be able to continue applying the (short) law”, informed the minister.
According to the so-called short law a time of 160 days is required for the entire process, both for the pre-selection of candidates and their election through universal vote. The Assembly will have 60 days to shortlist the applicants, while the TSE will have 100 days to organize the judicial elections.
lime too ruled out the possibility of the government issuing a decree and fix this problem and he said that they are within the corresponding deadlines and the election can be carried out, hoping that the magistrates issue their ruling as soon as possible.
“I completely rule out the possibility of a decree, the supreme decree It is not one of the options that the Government is contemplating of President Arce and we are going to raise awareness to give viability to the transformations of Justice and compliance with the Constitution ”, he assured.
