In this executive summary of the report titled Judicial Elections in Bolivia: An Unprecedented Event, we analyze the popular election of high-ranking judicial authorities in Bolivia.
Bolivia is the only country where—in one election so far, held in 2011—the members of the highest courts of justice (the Supreme Court of Justice, the Agro-Environmental Court, and the Plurinational Constitutional Court), as well as the members of the governing body that oversees judicial training (the Judicial Council), have been elected.
There is considerable interest in examining this unique situation and its outcome. The report summarized below was drafted on the basis of documentary analysis and fieldwork conducted in La Paz and Sucre in June 2014. Researchers conducted 32 interviews, including interviews with six elected justices, as well as gathering published material and unpublished reports.
Read the full executive summary of the report here.
