From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 10, 2024, p. 18
The former Minister of the Government of Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales, Carlos Romero, warned that the two magistrates of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) who issued the resolution that ratifies the prohibition of two re-nominations to elected positions, whether continuous or discontinuous, committed malfeasance, and indicated that what is appropriate is to file a criminal complaint for that crime.
Accompanied by other leaders related to Evo Morales, Romero questioned the magistrates self-extended that ratified a ruling that prevents the coca grower leader from being a presidential candidate again, Brújula Digital reported. The politician noted that the rights of a person, in this case Morales, can be relegated only through a law and not through a resolution or ruling.
In Romero’s opinion, judges Gonzalo Hurtado and René Espada committed prevarication because they went beyond what was required by the plaintiffs José Carlos Gutiérrez and Miguel Ángel Balcázar Ruiz, and that through an appeal for supplementation and amendment They modified the Political Constitution of the State.
Gutiérrez, deputy of the opposition party Podemos, explained: We have made a request for supplementation and amendment to constitutional ruling 1010/2023, in which it is asked whether I, as a legislator, could exercise the mandate of parliament for the third time. In this context, it is confirmed that it is impossible, regardless of the period in which one has been, to exercise a third mandate, and that generates jurisprudence. Gutiérrez added that with the constitutional order It was ratified that Morales and any authority who has held a national, departmental or municipal position can only be elected for two terms..
The member Tahuichi Tahuichi Quispe, of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, announced that in the registration of candidacies for the 2025 general elections, that body will abide by the ruling of the TCP.
Meanwhile, the wing of the Movement towards Socialism related to the former Bolivian president called for a meeting of its bases that will take place today in Lauca Ñ, in Chapare, to analyze the situation and evaluate whether they will resume the road blockade, which they suspended after 23 days without having achieved their objectives, after the decision of the Constitutional Court.
Morales, who ended his hunger strike after six days also without the government acceding to his demand for dialogue, did not comment on the recent constitutional order.