TSE: “Judicial elections remain at risk”

The possibility of judicial elections taking place on December 1 is not certainwarned this Friday the vice president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Francisco Vargas, who explained that they sent a ‘self-extended’ petition to the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) to settle this danger once and for all.

“As long as the Constitutional Court does not rule, I believe that there is a high risk of the course of the electoral process. We have complied with what the La Paz guarantee court has determined as a result of the compliance action; but it is necessary for the Constitutional Court to issue a statement, accumulate all these cases and issue a ruling, a ruling on the direction of this electoral process,” declared the electoral member.

two weeks ago, two constitutional rulings of departmental chambers, in Beni and Pando, They put the electoral process on hold again, because they ordered the lists to be returned to the Assembly at the request of losing candidates in the pre-selection process.

“We understand that There are more than 40 resources pending reviewwhich have been carried out in the pre-selection phase, that is, at the stage in which the Legislative Assembly was carrying out the pre-selection of the candidates, then this request emphasizes the concern that we have regarding the risk that exists of violation of the principle of estoppel,” he said later.

In this framework, they sent a request to the TCP to grant a precautionary measure to the judicial electoral processin such a way that no other demand that may be presented affects the normal development.

The problem is that they sent the memorial to the ‘self-prorogated’ magistrates, whose mandate lost legitimacy and no one recognizes. Likewise, the ‘self-extended’ themselves appear as candidates again and intend to return in other positions.