Former president of the departmental court of Justice of Tarija is the first candidate to apply to the TSJ

Lawyer Hermes Flores Égüez, former president of the Tarija Departmental Court of Justice, became the first candidate registered as candidate for magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ). He submitted his application this Saturday morning.

“I am from Tarija, I am applying in the call for judicial elections for the Supreme Court of Justice. I arrived last night (Friday), We have just completed the act that manifests our application”, indicated the jurist to the media after presenting the documents that prove his application.

The professional from Tarija has a master’s degree in Agrarian Procedural Law, he also served as an official of the Judicial Branch between 2018 and 2020. Fue president of the Departmental Court of Justice of Tarijaand is currently a member of a room.

Flores Égüez was investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for homicide, serious and very serious injuries as a result of a traffic incident that occurred on August 18 of last year in the city of Tarija, in which a young university student was seriously injured.

On August 22, the matter prosecutor Alí Junior Martínez ordered the initiation of investigations and instructed the investigator to take statements from the former president on August 31 under warning of arrest in case of non-attendance. However, the former judicial authority did not appear and neither did the investigator sergeant Ricardo Oviedo Márquez informed the victim’s relatives of the reasons why the former magistrate would not have attended to provide informative statements.

It was learned that on the day of the accident, August 18, 2022, Flores was driving his vehicle and suddenly took an unexpected turn on Jaime Paz avenue, taking the lead of the motorcycle driven by the young Oscar T. V, 21 years old. , who did not have time to dodge and collided at full speed with the motorized. There is no data on the outcome of the case.