With less than two months until the 12 October general elections - in which President Evo Morales of the left-wing ruling Movimiento al Socialismo [MAS] remains the firm favourite - the state of Bolivia’s justice system has emerged as a major campaign issue. The legislature’s decision last month to suspend two senior judges for the dereliction of duty has focused attention anew on the judiciary, fuelling demands for further reform and re-exposing problems that were not addressed by the unprecedented October 2011 national public elections to select judges for the country’s top courts.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1430 words.
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