April 27, 2024, 9:15 PM
April 27, 2024, 9:15 PM
The popular action presented by the president of the Indigenous Central of Amazonian Women of Pando, Yeni Duri Bautista It was presented 73 days after Law 1549 was enacted which is the norm observed in the memorial. The lawsuit asks for a new call that has special rules for the indigenous women of Pando.
“I present this popular action and I ask that it be admitted and granted, leaving without effect the pre-selection process of candidates for the judicial elections; that a new one be carried out, dictating the appropriate affirmative action measures to flexibility in the qualifying requirements and qualification of merits for Pando applicants women and indigenous people, through differentiated rules in line with the reality of the department,” states the memorial request to which EL DEBER agreed.
Law 1549 was widely debated and difficult to reach agreement in the Vice Presidency of the State. Was promulgated February 6; The lawsuit was filed on April 19, that is, 73 days after of the “Transitional Law for Judicial Elections 2024”. The lawsuit was filed by Yeni Duri Bautista on behalf of the candidate Mineya Lucindo Nacimento, who applied to the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) for Pando.
The applicant was disqualified for not meeting specific requirement 4 which required experience of at least 8 years in the performance of functions in public or private institutions or in the free exercise of the profession related to the area of constitutional law, administrative law or Human Rights.
EL DEBER obtained the contact number of Mineya Lucindo Nacimento and tried to communicate with her through her telephone line and WhatsApp messages, but He didn’t answer the calls and neither did the messages..
His lawyer, in the memorial, assures that the exercise of the legal profession “is in all areas”, assessment of indigenous, original peasant experiences of justice as an exercise of constitutional law and compliance with specific requirements”, also requests that the original indigenous peasant experience has scoring value in the evaluation process.
The memorial questions the content of Law 1549 and the alleged restrictions it has regarding female participation, “it is considered that the call for judicial elections should have taken into account the customary law, uses and customs of the indigenous peoples who live in the department of Pando, very different in idiosyncrasy. to other indigenous peoples found in the national territory, aspects that prevent the women and indigenous people of Pando from participating in judicial elections.” The document states that They are not on equal terms compared to the general requirements established in the Call Law 1549.
On April 24, the first hearing was held by the president of the Constitutional Chamber of that department, Celsa Salazar Rodas, who said that the hearing could not be held because there is no designated member. For that reason they summoned the judge on duty, who decided Jorge Luis Sotelo Beltrán and served as a member.
However, at the hearing they reported that the defendants had not been notified and therefore the plaintiffs themselves proposed deferring the hearing. Then, Judge Salazar summoned new hearing on Tuesday, April 30 at 09:00 in the courts of Cobija.
