July 20, 2024, 12:30 PM
July 20, 2024, 12:30 PM
The evaluation phase for candidates for magistrates to the Judicial Branch and the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) began yesterday, Friday. Israel Campero, candidate for the TCP and accused of favoring the Government with constitutional rulings, yesterday took his exam and said that he practically passed the evaluation after answering four of five questions. This process continues today and it is estimated that 35 candidates will be evaluated. Candidates must score at least 130 points out of 200 to continue in the race.
“One must be intellectually honest. In my judgment, which may be a strange judgment, all the questions were correct, all the questions could have been correct. I believe that chance cannot be the justification for an answer; however, we are modestly satisfied with our score. We would have liked to answer the third question, but over any subjective element, one’s intellectual honesty and honesty with oneself must prevail,” said Campero after giving his exam before the legislative commissions.
The lawyer, who is a member of the Constitutional Court of La Paz, said that he had already passed the 130 points in the evaluation and merits process, which meant that he had been approved in this process: “I think we’re already in,” Campero said.
The administrator of justice is in the sights of political sectors because he issued judicial resolutions considered favorable to the government of President Luis Arce, such as the order to the TSupreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to accompany the congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the city of El Alto or the impediment for the Plurinational Legislative Assembly to question eight ministers.
“Political criteria will be expressed in political terms, their interests are different, the jurists, the lawyers, Let us put it in legal terms, our methods are diametrically opposed to theirs”Campero justified.
The jurist was also questioned because he would be assuming a double function because apart from administering justice in a constitutional court, it is also part of the Administrative Court of the Organization of American States (OAS) since 2019.
The evaluation process for candidates for magistrates was restarted today. The president of the Joint Constitutional Commission, Senator Miguel Rejas, reported that today at 09:00 the second day of oral examination of the candidates began. “Today we could have at least 35 candidates evaluated,” He explained the final phase of the pre-selection process for judicial candidates, which began yesterday after overcoming a series of legal appeals filed by disqualified candidates.
As of yesterday, a total of 21 candidates were evaluated by the Joint Commission on Plural Justice and at least 14 by the Joint Commission on the Constitution. The evaluation stage comprises a total of 100 points, to which are added the 100 points from the previous merit examination. The candidate must achieve a minimum of 130 points in both stages to be included in the list that will go to the plenary session of the Legislative Assembly.the body that will elect by two-thirds of the vote the candidates who will go to the judicial elections.
In this evaluation phase, each candidate randomly selects five questions from a question bank and answers them in a maximum time of five minutes each. The first candidate to take his oral exam was former MAS deputy Franklin Garvizú, who is applying to be part of the Council of the Judiciary.
According to Law 1549, which regulates judicial elections, the preselection of candidates concludes with the referral to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of a list of 192 qualified professionals, so that this body can organize the elections within 150 calendar days.
