This cartoon is from El Diario, January 8, 2012. It portrays both current president and vice-president. The latter is placing a big eraser in the elbow of the former. The vice says: “with this heavy-duty eraser you will be able to erase [with the elbow] all the short laws you will sanction..” [with the hand]…
Tag: Judicial system
Judicial elections’ official results, finally!
finally! Los Tiempos reports: The final results confirmed that for this judicial elections, the null and blank votes reached 60 percent, compared to 40 percent of the valid votes. [so those pre-selected candidates by current government will take office. Is that going to be legal? yes, legitimate? no] The President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal…
Where are the Bolivian 2011 Judicial election’s results?
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…
Judicial “election” perceptions from Bolivian citizens
This cartoon from El Dia illustrates how most people felt about yesterday’s Judicial “election.” Now, the electoral office is saying that the results could be made available by October 24th, last night hey said October 29th. It’s worth remembering that current Bolivian President estimated a 70% of votes in favor of the electoral process (valid…
About the judicial “election” and their candidates in Santa Cruz
El Deber website posted this article last night: Today (10/12/11) was the day that the 74 aspiring candidates had to introduce themselves to the cruceno population. The setting was the Gilberto Parada Coliseum; to start at 11am. By noon only 20 of the 74 showed up; the public was also scarce which shows little interest on this…
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