August 27, 2022, 12:45 PM
August 27, 2022, 12:45 PM
The Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, referred this Saturday to the process of institutionalizing positions in the judicial system, as one of the ways to advance towards judicial reform and put an end to practices that favor corruption and inefficiency. He revealed that a review found that a judge in Oruro did not have a law degree.
From the program ¡Qué semana!, of El DEBER Radio, Minister Lima stated that they have set a goal until next October that 100% of the judges of the country’s courts be institutionalized, since currently of the 1,000 judges, 489 (48.9%) have temporary positions, which does not allow evaluation of their performance.
Within the framework of the institutionalization process, Lima indicated that the Council of the Judiciary is in the task of evaluating the files of the transitory judges. “Although surprising, of the 489 judges, in a previous process, we found that a judge in Oruro did not have a law degree. The way in which justice has been handled in the country is really serious and this situation must be reviewed,” the authority said.
What happens to these 1,000 judges that we have in the country? We cannot do performance evaluations to those that have the category of transitory. Therefore, the guarantee that this works differently is in this firstFirst step: move from transitory to institutionalization with a transparent process and social control”, added the minister.
He insisted that this step is important to improve the justice in the country, since international reports, like that of the rapporteur Diego García-Sayán, he observed the transience, since a characteristic of judicial independence is that the judge be institutionalized.
He announced that after this stage, it will be passed to the next phase, which is performance evaluation.
He assured that work is also being done to advance towards the meritocracy of administrators of justice and, therefore, 185 young people are being trained to become judges; that is, “they have entered a meritocratic process and in the next eight months or a year they will be ready to be part of the Judicial Branch,” Lima said.
In the report presented by the United Nations special rapporteur for judicial independence, Diego García-Sayán, in Geneva on the radiography of Bolivian justice, identified practices that favor corruption and inefficiency, in addition to their dependency links with the country’s political system.
