Yolanda Mamani Cayo / La Paz
On its second day of reviewing the folders of the Ombudsman applicants, the Mixed Commission of the Constitution authorized the current interim defender Nadia Cruz to the next phase and disqualified the leader of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy (Conade), Manuel Morales.
The legislative body yesterday concluded the review of 145 folders, of which 72 were disabled, 65 enabled and eight pending cases.
In the legislative commission, which verifies compliance with the 18 requirements that must be met by applicants for the position, they reported that Cruz complied with the established requirements, so he went on to the next phase of the pre-selection.
The opposition and even some MAS legislators questioned the registration of Cruz, who has held the position of interim defender for more than three years and asked her to step aside for “ethics”, however, she signed up on the last day of inscription.
About the activist
In the case of Morales, the leader of Conade confirmed to Page Seven that he was disqualified because a signature was missing from one of the documents he presented.
“The disqualification says that it is due to the lack of a signature on one of the documents, despite the fact that I have presented (the papers) with all the respective signatures even in digital form (…), he denounced that disqualification as subjective and malicious,” he said. yesterday the activist Morales.
However, he reported that this day he will appear before the mixed commission with a note in which he will request the review of the case.
“I am going to present myself to the commission and I am going to request a review of the disqualification that they have committed because they have not taken into account several elements, I am going to present my supporting evidence,” Morales said.
Likewise, the former deputy of the MAS Lidia Patty was also eliminated from the race for the position of Ombudsman, according to an Erbol report, due to several unfulfilled requirements that were observed in her registration folder, among them that she is politically active, that she was a deputy in the previous legislative administration, that she was a candidate in the last elections and that she did not sign her resume.
Regarding the requirements verification phase, the president of the mixed commission, Senator Rubén Gutiérrez, assured yesterday that between Friday and Saturday they will make some “adjustments” to the “pending cases.”
He added that in the verification of requirements, the documentation presented is being corroborated with all the instances involved in the process.
