It is way over the deadline that the Bolivian electoral office offered, back on October 16, 2011 when the questioned Judiciary elections took place. Such election was highly questioned by citizens who did not actually elect but chose out of a list of pre-selected candidates by current political party in government.

El Diario’s cartoon (Oct 24) and La Razon’s (Oct 25), summarize this event; the first cartoon shows a worried head of the electoral office in a “magician’s” role as he started to “pull-out” valid votes in the last three days. The other cartoon reflects how current political party in government took the blow, the socks hanging in the air are portraying the colors of the “flag” this party created (some people say those colored squares appeared initially in the feudal Europe, placing those squares is not possible in the looms the Incas had or any other indigenous group of this part of the world, at the time the Spaniards came). Nevertheless, that squared flag was adopted by many indigenous groups who resent colonialism in South America.

Going back to the cartoon, the punch comes out of a ballot box which reads “anti-arrogance vote,” in clear allusion of how current political party, the president of the coca growers and the State of Bolivia behavior. They were so sure of what they called their triumph with over 60% of valid votes. Until the official figures are known and the electoral office passes the audit many opposition politicians intend to conduct, the empty and null votes continue to be larger than the valid votes.

In Bolivia, people understand one thing regarding those “elected” judicial officials: they could assume office as the election was legal but they can not say they have the legitimacy as most people resented the whole process. Legal yes, legitimate… NO!