May 16, 2024, 10:14 PM
May 16, 2024, 10:14 PM
There will be no Assembly session, the vice president David Choquehuanca decided that he will wait for the decision of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) regarding a request he made to make known a final resolution on the popular action that stopped the preselection of magistrates.
“The presidency of the Assembly urges the Plurinational Constitutional Court to provide certainty to the Bolivian peopleimmediately issuing the corresponding ruling that resolves the review of AP Resolution No. 004/2024 of April 30, 2024, pronounced by the Constitutional Chamber of the Departmental Court of Justice of Pando,” says a statement published by the Vice Presidency.
From 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the heads of the benches, presidents of the two chambers and presidents of the commissions met in search of a solution to the preselection of candidates for magistrates. There was no agreement because no one gave in.
There are four proposals and none were supported. The Vice Presidency asks the TCP to rule on the ruling issued by the Pando Constitutional Chamber that paralyzes the process; The arcist bench asked the TCP itself to declare a precautionary measure against the lawsuits and allow the process to continue; The evistas asked the president of the Assembly to call a session and for the plenary session to define what is done with the judicial rulings that detract from legitimacy; finally The Senate approved a summons to Choquehuanca for him to call a session, something that was rejected this afternoon.
In that way, The preselection process remains paralyzed since April 8 and none of the parties are giving up their position and the deadlines for holding a judicial election are increasingly shorter.
For the opponents and the Evista bench, the bet of the Vice President and his bench is to legitimize the validity of the Sucre extensions through a ruling and they are committed to achieving a verdict in a short time.
