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Weekly Report - 16 July 2015 (WR-15-28)
BOLIVIA: Filling key posts
Bolivia’s plurinational 166-member bicameral legislature picked six of the seven new magistrates for the supreme electoral court (TSE), with the other chosen by President Evo Morales as per 2010 legislation. The appointments follow the crisis earlier this year when TSE magistrates quit en masse amid accusations of ties to Morales’ Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) [WR-15-22] and concerns of its handling of the March gubernatorial and local elections.
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