November 11, 2024, 4:00 AM
November 11, 2024, 4:00 AM
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) seeks to shield judicial elections by demanding that the Plurinational Legislative Assembly approve a short law until November 15. Today a summit was confirmed in the electoral body with representatives of the political parties that have legislative benches. Evo Morales asked for security to attend the meeting.
The member Tahuichi Tahuichi Quispe explained that the TSE’s intention is for the parties with representation in the Legislative Assembly to approve this short law before November 15, in order to guarantee the total continuity of the judicial electoral process, instead of the partial solution. which was resolved by Chamber 4 of the Plurinational Constitutional Court made up of members Gonzalo Hurtado and Yván Espada.
According to the electoral spokesperson, the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP), by issuing rulings contrary to the electoral processes, is undermining democracy in the country. In this sense, Tahuichi Tahuichi considered it necessary to rethink the role of this body and proposed the convening of a new Constituent Assembly to correct this situation.
“This short law would be a fundamental tool, because it would be protecting us, it would be shielding us as an Electoral Body. Since 2010 we have faced multiple attacks on institutions, such as the exclusion of members of Law 044, which regulates the trial of responsibilities and the court case for the exercise of functions of high authorities,” Tahuichi Tahuichi commented in a radio interview. Erbol.
Regarding the management of the judicial elections, the member said that, if he had the power to intervene, he would carry out the judicial elections even if this contradicts the decision of the two members who declared the selection of TCP magistrates void.
Tahuichi Tahuichi also announced that a political commitment will be requested for democracy and to save the judicial elections, also seeking to include the electoral members as beneficiaries of the court case, in order to prevent them from being exposed to ordinary processes.
“In truth, we are begging and imploring this Assembly to amend this irreparable damage of the year 2010, that discrimination that we have suffered. If this week they incorporate us as members into Law 044, it would be another shield for the exercise of our functions,” Tahuichi explained.
The Fourth Chamber of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) issued Constitutional Sentence 0770/2024-S4 that ratified the decision of the First Constitutional Chamber of Beni and declared void the call for the election of magistrates for the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in the departments of Beni and Pando.
He also declared void the call for the TCP in the departments of Pando, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija.
Meanwhile, former President Evo Morales, who is the head of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), reported yesterday that the president of the electoral body, Oscar Hassenteufel, invited him to participate today in the meeting with heads of the political parties and State authorities to discuss the issue of judicial elections, but asked to guarantee security.
“I have been invited by the TSE president to participate in a meeting tomorrow (today) at 10:00, I am waiting for him to guarantee me security, if he guarantees security, I will be there at 10:00 in La Paz (in) this meeting to address these issues of the elections of the Judicial Body,” Morales said.
