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Andean Group - February 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
POLITICS & JUDICIARY: Judiciary in crisis
The resignations of the presidents of the plurinational constitutional court (TC) and supreme justice court (CSJ), Ruddy Flores and Gonzalo Hurtado, respectively, in less than a month, has laid bare the crisis afflicting Bolivia’s judiciary. It has forced President Evo Morales and the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government to admit that the inaugural October 2011 national elections to select 56 new judges - for the TC, the CSJ, the council of magistrates (the judicial oversight body) and a new environmental court (Tribunal agro-ambiental [TA]) - have failed to deliver sought-after improvements to the justice system [RA-11-11]. Addressing the situation is crucial for the MAS ahead of the upcoming October general elections.
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