The former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez has filed this Thursday a challenge against two judges of a court of first instance in La Paz, claiming that they were already aware of the case for which she has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the ‘Coup d’Etat II’ plot.
Specifically, the former president has claimed that judges Orlando Rojas and Claudia Castro knew about her case in advance, which would compromise their impartiality, as reported by ‘El Deber’.
«I refuse to direct the appeal hearing for ‘Patraña 2’ to the judges of the Fourth Criminal Court, Orlando Rojas and Claudia Castro, who must excuse themselves for having already known the case in advance in their capacity as investigating judges and having ruled against me. Enough injustice!», said the former president on the social network Twitter.
Likewise, the former Bolivian president recalled that Article 180 of the Bolivian Constitution establishes that the ordinary jurisdiction «is based on the procedural principles of suitability, honesty, legality and due process». Thus, she assured that the principles of said article had been violated by judges Rojas and Castro.
Jeanine Áñez has been in preventive prison for almost 700 days for her participation in the ‘Coup d’Etat II’ case, for which she was sentenced to 10 years in prison last June.
Specifically, the former president has been found guilty of the crimes of breach of duties and resolutions contrary to the Constitution, for self-proclaiming herself president of Bolivia in 2019.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
