Opponents speak of “amparazos” and masistas accuse Lima for problems in the pre-selection of judges

The opposition parties accused the MAS of replacing the decrees with constitutional protections as a new strategy that will allow them to elect judges related to the MAS political line. While the official accused the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima of being the author of the problems that arose in the pre-selection of magistrates to high positions of the Judicial Branch.

“This scenario, that of the shelters, is the new mechanism of the Government, the ‘amparazos’ are going to replace the decrees For the judicial dictatorship to be imposed, other resources will probably appear consecutively. The objective is to buy time to avoid the death certificate of his process”, accused the opposition deputy, Carlos Alarcón (CC).

This Monday the mixed commission of Constitution of the Assembly It will meet again from 3:00 p.m. to consider the new regulations and the call for pre-selection of candidates for magistrates of the Judicial Branch. The masistas voted to take into account only the points observed in three appeals.

The deputy, Patricio Mendoza (MAS), accused the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, of causing this situation in the pre-selection process and said that the legislators never authorized him to be spokesman for the Assembly on this point. He also said that does not know which are the two protections that Senator Arce referred to.

“He (minister) provoked everything from the beginning, before the call and the regulations were approved, the minister was already expressing opinions about the process, as if he were a spokesperson for the commission. He puts in his spoon and then says that ‘he is not going to choose Evo’. Those things are not treated that way”, protested the pro-government deputy.

Between accusations and disqualifications, deputies and senators will resume Saturday’s postponed session and analyze the reforms that the technical teams are working on. What they must eliminate is paragraph 16 of article 19 of the regulation of pre-selection of judicial authorities, to comply with the ruling of the First Constitutional Chamber of Beni, which observed the common requirement of never having issued a political opinion in order to be a candidate.

In addition, should take into account specific requirement 11 for the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) and specific requirement 12 for the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), which define residence. “Have permanent residence in the application department during the last two computable years from the publication of the call “, indicates the text for the two positions.

According to the president of the commission, These two points were the subject of two constitutional protections who have already arrived at the Assembly. For this reason, the technical teams work on alternative wordings or permanently remove those requirements.

For deputy Mendoza there is not much problem because any citizen can prove the place of residence showing his electoral certificate, the last place where he exercised his duty to go to the polls. The last election of authorities that took place was in 2021 election of mayors and governors.