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Weekly Report - 02 February 2017 (WR-17-04)

BOLIVIA: Seeking to address a long-standing priority

"The biggest challenge facing the 2017-2018 legislature" is how the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) president of the lower chamber of congress, Gabriela Montaño, recently described the need to transform Bolivia's justice system. The issue has long been a priority facing the MAS government led by President Evo Morales which, at the start of this year, sent a package of three bills down to congress aimed at stamping out the notorious inefficiencies in the judiciary. President Morales’ appointment of Héctor Arce, Bolivia’s former attorney general (2014-2017), as the new justice minister in his recent cabinet reshuffle [WR-17-03], is also widely considered indicative of these efforts.

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