June 30, 2023, 20:59 PM
June 30, 2023, 20:59 PM
The Mixed Constitution Commission will meet on Mondayand will deal with the time and subject matter of the new regulations and the call for pre-selection of candidates for the Judicial Branch and the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP), so that it can subsequently be dealt with and approved by the plenary of the Legislative Assembly.
The president of the Mixed Constitution Commission, Patricia Arce (MAS), met this Friday with the ex officio president of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP) and Vice President of State, David Choquehuanca, to discuss this issue and postpone the legislative recessgiven the need to make judicial elections viable.
“I have just left a meeting with the vice president to coordinate and be (approved the regulations and the call) as soon as possible, so that in the Assembly we can trbind this new resolution and let’s get the new call”, he explained.
However, the ruling of the Plurinational Constitutional Court on the legal appeal that stopped the process for the second time pre-selection of judicial candidates.
On April 27, the constitutional control admitted the toabstract unconstitutionality actionpresented by Creemos deputy Leonardo Ayala, against a resolution of the Legislative Assembly, which approved the call and the pre-selection regulations for candidates.
In his petition, Ayala alleged that cThere is a law for this candidate pre-selection processs, as happened in 2017. In addition, it requested the approval of two thirds of all phases of the work for the pre-selection of judicial candidates.
By admitting the action, the TCP issued a precautionary measure paralyzing, for the second time, the entire process of preselection.
In order to unblock this process, the Plurinational Legislative Assembly approved the transitory law to guarantee the pre-selection of female candidates and candidates, with a view to the formation of the Judicial Branch and the TCP.
The regulation, which was promulgated by President Luis Arce on June 5, grants the Legislature 60 days for the pre-selection process and 100 days to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to organize and carry out the judicial elections.
On Tuesday, the vice president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Francisco Vargas, considered it necessary for the Legislature to issue, until July 6, the new call for pre-selection of the aspirants to the judicial elections, so that the elections are held in December, and in January the new authorities are sworn in.
Senator Arce reported that the vice president “is concerned because we must guarantee the judicial elections”, since the risk persists that they could be “postponed”.
