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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 01 March 2018
BOLIVIA: Spoiled ballots win in elections for the Bolivian judiciary
On 3 December 2017, Bolivians 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, with the first being held in October 2011; the 2017 election was originally scheduled for October but was postponed due to difficulties in filling the legally required minimum numbers of candidates for the TSJ and TCP. In response to the TCP’s decision to permit President Evo Morales to stand for re-election for a fourth term in 2019, the political opposition had called for voters to express their dissatisfaction by recording a blank vote or spoiled ballot. As such, Bolivia emerges from the electoral process with a judiciary with strong ties to Morales’ 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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