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Weekly Report - 04 June 2015 (WR-15-22)
BOLIVIA: Electoral tribunal in turmoil
In the latest sign of the perennial crisis facing Bolivia’s judicial institutions, last week the entire seven-member supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) quit. Unlike the other top courts, the TSE justices (six of whom are chosen by the legislature and the other by the president), were not elected in the unprecedented direct judicial elections in October 2011. In those elections voters selected 54 senior judges to sit on the constitutional court (TCP), the supreme court (CSJ), the council of magistrates (the judicial oversight body) and the environmental court (Tribunal Agro-ambiental [TA]). But the TSE crisis ups the pressure on the government led by President Evo Morales to address the continued problems afflicting Bolivia’s judicial institutions.
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