{"id":505151,"date":"2026-04-19T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/peace-and-electoral-body-of-bolivia-see-the-need-to-reform-laws-to-improve-democracy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:07:47","slug":"peace-and-electoral-body-of-bolivia-see-the-need-to-reform-laws-to-improve-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/peace-and-electoral-body-of-bolivia-see-the-need-to-reform-laws-to-improve-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace and electoral body of Bolivia see the need to reform laws to improve democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

La Paz.- <\/strong>The President of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, and the head of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Gustavo \u00c1vila, agreed this Sunday separately that a reform of the current electoral regulations is necessary to strengthen the country's democratic system.<\/p>\n\n\nPaz referred to the matter after voting to elect the governor of the southern region of Tarija, where a second round of elections is being held this Sunday, as in the departments of Santa Cruz, Oruro, Chuquisaca and Beni.\n\nThe president said that once the current electoral process is fully concluded, he will summon the members of the TSE \"because we have to make improvements in democracy\" and in electoral regulations.\n\n\u00abA cycle of this style of democracy is closing. It has been a very intense process\u00bb, said the president, who recalled that Bolivia had general elections with a second round in 2025 and this year regional and municipal elections were held, which will be completed this day with the runoff to elect governors in five departments.\n\n\n

We recommend reading:Believers in Bolivia commemorate Good Friday with prayers for world peace<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nPaz considered it necessary to \"make changes to the regulations\" so that any electoral process is \"more solid, that there are no doubts\" about it and \"there is no conflict with other instances\", as happened with the Judiciary in the 2024 judicial elections.\n\n\n

Delayed and Partial Judicial Elections<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThose elections were held a year later than planned due to problems in the Legislative branch and numerous judicial cases that repeatedly stalled the process, but in addition, the vote was partial, as only 19 judges out of the 26 planned were elected, and completing that election is still pending.\n\nPaz maintained that the electoral body \"is the fourth power\" recognized as such in the Bolivian Constitution and that we must \"empower that fourth power.\"\n\nHe also saw the need to \"make more practical, faster choices\", since \"the political anguish that the country has experienced all this time is a burden\" that has limited the development of initiatives for the growth of Bolivia.\n\nEarlier, at the opening of the voting day in an event in Santa Cruz, \u00c1vila stated that the electoral officials are \"critical of the current regulations\".\n\n\u00abIf there's one thing we've learned, it's that our legal framework presents contradictions and gaps that limit the development of the democratic system. An insufficiency that we have been publicly warning about for some time,\u00bb he expressed.\n\n\n

TSE will promote participatory regulatory reform<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nFor this reason, the TSE president ratified that from that body \"a regulatory reform will be promoted\" for which he will convene all sectors and institutions.\n\nIn the first round, the governors of Potos\u00ed, Pando, and Cochabamba were elected on March 22nd, all from opposition parties.\n\nIn La Paz there should have been a second round, but at the end of March the Nueva Generaci\u00f3n Patri\u00f3tica (NGP) party withdrew, so the candidate of President Paz's coalition was declared the winner.\n\n\n
You can also read:Bolivia begins the commemoration of the 147 years of the loss of its access to the sea<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nIn four of the five regions going to the runoff this day, candidates from the official alliance compete against candidates from other political organizations.\n\nPeace has announced that it will seek to work with all regional and municipal<\/a> elected authorities, regardless of their party.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Paz.- The President of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, and the head of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Gustavo \u00c1vila, agreed this Sunday separately that a reform of the current electoral regulations is necessary to strengthen the country’s democratic system. Paz referred to the matter after voting to elect the governor of the southern region of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-505151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}