Constitution suspends judicial preselections; Ministry of Justice to meet tomorrow to discuss criminal organizations

At 8:04 p.m. on Wednesday, the seven councillors present At the start of the examination of the first 26 applicants for the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) in the province of La Paz, they voted to suspend the process because The “arcist” faction voted against continuing the meeting as ordered by the court.

“If we suspend this meeting I am unwilling to resume the meeting until I have assurances“We have asked the speaker of parliament to find a way to continue our work without these unrests, but we have not received support,” Miguel Rejas, president of the Mixed Constitutional Commission, warned before the meeting ended.

this time This is a lawsuit filed by citizen Heidy Padilla Medina against the two committees because they did not disqualify candidate Jesus Martínez Subirana, who He would have forged documents to get to this stage. The complainant requested for disqualification and provided sufficient evidence, but the legislators did not listen to the complainant.

However, oral examinations for another committee (the Diversity Justice Committee) are scheduled to begin this Thursday. The lawsuit filed in Beni includes two committees As a result, they also had to suspend these 46 applicants from the Judicial Council when the exams began.

“We will continue to work normally until we are notified and we will make a decision once we are notified. If we obey those unconstitutional resourcesBeyond the normal range, “It’s clear that this was a plan run by Sucre, and this is a criminal organization,” Senator Luis Adolfo Flores, a member of the committee, said he regretted that complaints against prevaricating judges did not succeed because they were protected by the members themselves.

According to the list of registered applicants of the four courts, namely the Judiciary, TCP, TSJ, Judicial Council and Agricultural and Environmental Court, 75% are civil servants or judicial institutions Now it is those same people who repeatedly paralyze the process.​

Deputy Juan José Jáuregui detailed on Wednesday Unqualified candidates have 80 applications If they do not, ask for their case to be reconsidered They will take legal action to force lawmakers to review their case.