The Constitution Commission of the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday rejected the judicial pre-selection projects presented by the opposition alliances Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) and Creemos.
This week, CC presented the Bill of Guarantees which proposed to evaluate candidates for the judiciary through the Departmental Courts of Merit. Creemos, for its part, presented the draft standard for the judicial election which required that the departmental assemblies comply with the pre-selection of candidates.
The President of the Constitutional Commission, Juan José Jáuregui, explained that the two projects had been rejected for unconstitutionality, since they proposed to regulate the power of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly to carry out the pre-selection of candidates.
This action was questioned by the deputy Carlos Alarcón (CC), who pointed out that it is a trap and a fraud promoted by the official Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS).
“This MAS regulation is the trap of the country, it is fraud, it is deception; what they want is to give us back executioners and paramilitaries and not give us real judges,” the MP said.
Alarcón warned the MAS that the bench of the CC will not support the proposal it has in plenary session of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, since for this it needs a two-thirds vote.
Jáuregui, for his part, argued that a regulation is being developed for the election of new judicial authorities that allows an open appeal to all Bolivian lawyers who meet the conditions.
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