Late in the pre-selection of candidates, the commissions go to another hearing in Pando

The hearing, which will resolve the popular action presented by the indigenous leader Yeni Duri Bautista against the preselection of candidates for magistrates, is scheduled to take place at 09:00 this Tuesday in the First Constitutional Chamber of the city of Cobija. The parliamentarians of the mixed commissions of the Constitution and Plural Justice will attend with a completely outdated calendar of the process will attend the session.

“If tomorrow (Tuesday), in the popular action there is a determination that grants guardianship to the plaintiff, in reality we are necessarily going to analyze the need to restructure Law 1549,” said deputy Juan José Jauregui (MAS-arcist wing).

On the 19th of this month the indigenous leader and former MAS deputy presented the popular action asking that the pre-selection process be suspended and also that a new call be issued with special rules for the department of Pando.

The plaintiff took as an example the case of the candidate Mineya Lucindo Nacimento, who applied to the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) for Pando, but was disqualified. The lawsuit states that the rules of the call and Law 1549 discriminate against candidates for this department. The curious thing is that the lawsuit was filed 71 days after the law was enacted, without the leader being an interested party in the process and without knowledge of the disqualified candidate.

Deputy Jerges Mercado (MAS-Ala Arcista) said that apart from this legal action that will be verified in Pando, There are other demands that the Assembly continues to addresssince until Friday of last week they were notified with eight court hearings.

However, the list of the Constitution commission refers to a dozen lawsuits, nine constitutional protections and a popular action. In the case of the amparos, there is one of them that requested the application of precautionary measures and for that reason the evaluation process was paralyzed.

According to Jauregui, at this point, the Assembly should have already been receiving the lists of the preselected candidates and calling a session to approve the shortlists. In accordance with the law and regulations, May 5 is the deadline for the Assembly to send the lists of those preselected to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).

However, two phases are missing that seem insurmountable: the first, the oral evaluation of the candidates. The second, the final approval of the lists of applicants, which must be by two thirds of the members of the commissions.

In the two instances, mixed commissions on the Constitution and Plural Justice, the two wings of the MAS have two-thirds, so they can approve the lists they prepare.

But They do not have two thirds in the Assembly and it is the last instance of preselection. Parliament has six days to send those lists.