September 23, 2024, 4:00 AM
September 23, 2024, 4:00 AM
Only eight women are on the list of the 39 candidates still in the race to be attorney general. 79% of the candidates are men, and this group includes the current district attorneys of Santa Cruz, Roger Mariaca; and of La Paz, William Alave. The Plurinational Legislative Assembly’s Joint Commission on Plural Justice disqualified 37 candidates for Attorney General, including the current president of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Paul Franco.
Yesterday, the legislative commission published the list of those qualified to continue with the pre-selection process for candidates for State Attorney General. On the list of 39 professionals, departmental prosecutors William Alave and Roger Mariaca are still in the runningas well as TSJ judge Olvis Eguez.
In total, there are 31 men and eight women who are still with chances of reaching the highest position in the Public Ministry, which is currently occupied by Juan Lanchipa, who is prohibited by law from seeking re-election after six years in office.
The women in the race are: Wilma Blazz Ibañez, Marina Duran Miranda, Nuria Gonzalez Romero, Veronica Miranda Huanca, Jhudith Reynolds Espinoza, Lizzie Riera Sorich, Carola Romero Pacello and Sandra Soto Couple. On that list, there are 14 candidates who identified themselves as indigenous, including Aymara, Quechua and one Chiquitano.
Between the 23rd and 24th of this month, The legislative joint commission will receive the challenges to the qualified candidates, but also the 37 lawyers Those who were removed from the process can exercise their right to appeal in order to return to the race.
Then, from September 26 to 28, the resolution of the candidates’ challenges is scheduled; On the 29th, the notification of challenges and the publication of the list of qualified candidates, so thatfrom September 30 to October 3, the commission will carry out the evaluation of merits.
On October 11, the oral exam and presentation of each candidate’s work plan will take place. The legislative body will submit a report with the list of candidates who pass this phase between October 16 and 17. Finally, between 18 and 22 October, the Assembly will appoint the new Attorney General with a two-thirds vote.
More than half of the 39 candidates still in the race are candidates who were postponed in the last preselection for the judicial elections. Also, The review of the lists revealed that 20% of the candidates They already ran for office in 2018.
Between February and August of this year, the preselection of candidates for the Judicial Branch and the Plurinational Constitutional Court was carried out. Of 710 candidates, 139 were shortlisted to be on the ballot. 22 of the candidates who were left behind are now back. to present their documents and try to reach Juan Lanchipa’s position.
EL DEBER reviewed the list of the 39 qualified candidates and their backgrounds. There are only eight candidates who are running for the first time: Lizzie Riera Sorich, Javier Flores Mamani, Edwin Quispe Mamani, Ramiro Marthan Rojas, Winter Rómulo Hinojosa Téllez, Franco Anagua Povera, Carola Romero Pacello, Judith Marcela Reynolds Espinoza and Judge José Luis Quiroga Flores.
Another 20% of candidates ran for Attorney General in the 2018 process: Constantino Coca Sejas, Roger Mariaca Montenegro, William Laura, Juan Oswaldo Valencia Alvarado and Jorge Perez Valenzuela.
Among those qualified to be The Attorney General also has five self-extended judges who were disqualified from the judiciary and are now seeking revenge in the race to become a prosecutor. Olvis Egüez Oliva is one of them.
