Andean Group - February 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)

At the end of last year, Bolivia went to the polls to elect senior members of various judicial bodies, including the supreme justice court (TSJ) and plurinational constitutional court (TCP). This was the second such occurrence of a popular vote on members of the judiciary – an election which assumes particular importance given continued controversy over President Evo Morales’ bid for a further term in office. In this February edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at these elections which arguably has left Bolivia with a judiciary with strong ties to the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government, but without any of the popular legitimacy the election was intended to promote, or a strong mandate to address the problems of the Bolivian legal system.

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