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Law Of Adaptation Of Deadlines For The Choice Of The Departmental Electoral Vowels And The Conformation Of The Judicial Organ And The Plurinational Constitutional Court.

Original Language Title: LEY DE ADECUACIÓN DE PLAZOS PARA LA ELECCIÓN DE LOS VOCALES ELECTORALES DEPARTAMENTALES Y LA CONFORMACIÓN DEL ÓRGANO JUDICIAL Y DEL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL PLURINACIONAL.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 LAW

EVO MORALES AYMA

CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA

For the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, has sanctioned the following Act:

THE PLURINATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,

DECCRETA:

DEADLINES FOR THE ELECTION OF DEPARTMENTAL ELECTORAL VOWELS AND THE CONFORMATION OF THE COURT AND TRIBUNAL

CONSTITUTIONAL PLURINATIONAL

Article 1. Article 2 of Law No. 003 of 13 February 2010 is amended with the following text:

? Article 2. (Call for Elections).

I. Once the Plurinational Electoral Body is formed, and in accordance with Law No. 026 of the Regime

Electoral of 30 June 2010, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal will convene Magistrates and Magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Agro-Environmental Tribunal, the Plurinational Constitutional Court and the Council of the Magistracy Council, in accordance with Article 208 of the Constitution of the State.

II. The Supreme Court of Justice, the Agro-Environmental Tribunal, the Council of the Magistracy and the Court

Plurinational Constitutional, will become operational once they have been elected and their authorities have been sworn in provided by Articles 182, 188, 194 and 198 of the Constitution of the State?

Article 2. Paragraph I. of Article 3 of Law No. 003 of 13 February 2010 is amended with the following text:

?Article 3. (Transitional of the positions of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court).

All charges of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Superior Courts of District and Courts, the National Agricultural Court, the Constitutional Court and the Council of the Judiciary are declared to be transitory, until they are elected and The Magistrate and Magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Agro-Environmental Court, the Plurinational Constitutional Court and the Council of the Magistrates ' Council; the Sixth Transitional Provision of the Constitution of the State, in the appropriate cases?

Article 3. Paragraph I. of Article 4 of Law No. 003 of 13 February 2010 is amended with the following

text:

? I. The Magistrate and Magistrates of the Constitutional Court after the liquidation of causes

filed until February 6, 2009, as provided in Article 4 paragraph I. of Law No. 003, in the meantime are not elected the new authorities of the Plurinational Constitutional Court will resolve the actions of defense of fundamental rights: action of freedom, action of constitutional protection, action of protection of privacy, action of compliance, Popular action; presented as of 7 February 2009, in strict subjection to the Constitution of the State in force. The other actions and resources will be resolved by the elected authorities by popular vote?

Article 4. Amends the Unica Abrasive Disposition of Law No. 027 of 6 July 2010 of the Court

Plurinational Constitutional with the following text:

?ONLY. From the possession of the Magistrate and the Magistrates of the The Constitutional Court (Plurinational Constitutional Court

has been abrogated by Law No. 1836, Law of the Constitutional Court of April 1, 1998, Law No. 2087 of April 26, 2000 and Law No. 1979 of May 24, 1999?

Article 5. (Institutional Transition).

In the framework of the Constitution of the State and the provisions of Law No. 018 of the Plurinational Electoral Body of June 16, 2010, the Chamber of Deputies of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly for two-thirds of votes of the members present and within a maximum period of ninety (90) days from the entry into force of this Law, shall elect to the and the Vocals of the Departmental Electoral Courts of the terns proposed by the Assemblies Departmental, selected by two-thirds of the votes of its members present. Of the total elected members in each Departmental Electoral Tribunal, at least half will be

women and at least one will be of indigenous peasant origin. In the same period, the President of the Plurinational State will appoint a member in each departmental Electoral Tribunal.

The processes of public convocation, merit assessment and the shaping of the terms for the Vocals Corresponding departmental, by the Departmental Assemblies for referral to the Chamber of Deputies, will be made within a maximum period of sixty (60) days computable from the enactment of this Law.

FINAL

ONLY. (Derogations). The Transitional Provision of Law No 026 of the Electoral Regime of

30 June 2010 is hereby repealed.

The paragraphs III. and VI. of the Second Transitional Provision of Law No. 018 of the Electoral Body are repealed

Plurinational of 16 June 2010.

Remit to the Executive Body, for constitutional purposes.

It is given in the Session Room of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, at twenty-seven days of August

of the year two thousand ten.

Fdo. René O. Martínez Callahuanca, Héctor Enrique Arce Zaconeta, Andrés A. Villca Daza, Clementina Garnica

Cruz, Pedro Nuny Caity, Ángel David Cortés Villegas.

Therefore, it is enacted so that it has and will comply with the law of the State. Plurinational of Bolivia.

Palace of Government of the city of La Paz, on the first day of the month of September of two thousand ten years.

FDO. EVO MORALES AYMA, Oscar Coca Antezana, Luis Alberto Arce, Catacora, Nilda Condori Cup.