October 21, 2024, 10:45 PM
October 21, 2024, 10:45 PM
The departmental prosecutor of Santa Cruz, Roger Mariaca Montenegrobecame the fourth Attorney General of the State appointed by the Legislative Assembly, effective as of the new Political Constitution of the State (CPE), He is the first Santa Cruz citizen to assume the highest position in the Public Ministry.
“With the vote of more than two-thirds of the assembly members present citizen Mariaca Montenegro Roger Rider is elected and appointed as Attorney General of the State“In accordance with article 39 of Law 1579, the presidency of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly will take the respective oath of office on Wednesday the 23rd at 4:00 p.m., everyone is invited,” proclaimed the vice president, David Choquehuanca, before closing the session.
This is how Mariaca will take command after three prosecutors who held the same position. The first case was particular because the new CPE came into force in February 2009 and the Assembly at that time prioritized the judicial election and extended the position of Mario Uribewho was the acting prosecutor until then.
Uribe had to remain in that position until October 2012 when the first election of a prosecutor in the Assembly took place and he was elected. Ramiro Guerrero with 105 votes of 144 assembly members present. Mario Uribe died in September 2020, a victim of Covid-19.
For that first election, 61 candidates presented themselves and were then qualified. 31 applicants, including the controversial Marcelo Sozathe prosecutor who investigated the ‘terrorism’ case, who obtained just four votes.
Guerrero was sworn in on October 23, 2012.was a constituent of the MAS in the Constituent Assembly and then an advisor to organizations related to the Government; When he left office he went to occupy a fourth line position as Deputy Minister of Lands.
On October 9, 2018 another candidate pre-selection process was completed and again a government official Attorney General of the State, Juan Lanchipa Ponce, was appointed. He was the third lawyer to hold the top position in the Public Ministry.
The new prosecutor was director of the Strategic Directorate of Maritime Claims, Silala and International Water Resources (Diremar), when Bolivia lost the trial at the Hague Court and then he ran for office and was elected in the second round.
Lanchipa was inaugurated on October 23, 2018. by the vice president, Álvaro García Linera and on the morning of this Monday the 21st he said goodbye to his position, after providing a “management report.”
He assumed office under allegations of being a supporter of Evism and leaves office with the same sign, as he was accused of benefiting Evo Morales in the alleged rape case that is being aired in Tarija.
