In the middle of allegations of impartiality, a new member of the Bolivian Electoral Tribunal has resigned

A third member of the Bolivian Electoral Tribunal (TSE) resigned Wednesday from office in less than four months., despite criticism of the impartiality of the organization in the organization of elections of 2019.

The vowel Dunia Sandoval, who opposed President Evo Morales' eligibility for a fourth candidacy, resigned due to "change of approach" the new directive of that court, badimilated to the decision of the opposition.

The TSE is "a prisoner of political power, systematically threatened by the government", warned opposition MP Lourdes Millares.

In the same spirit, his colleague José Carlos Gutiérrez felt that with Sandoval's resignation from the TSE is "totally taken" by the ruling Socialist Movement (MAS).

At the end of last year, there was The president of the court, Katia Uriona, has resigned for "a situation of stagnation in decision-making" of the TSE. Previously his vice president, José Luis Exeni, He resigned, although he discussed supposed health problems.

Sandoval, who opposed the organization of primaries last Sunday, "It was an obstacle" for the ruling party, according to Millares.

"I am in a situation of disagreement on several important decisions that go against my professional and democratic ethics "Sandoval wrote in his resignation letter to the president of the Congress, Álvaro García, also vice-president of Bolivia.

The arguments of the resignation of Sandoval"The evidence of the final state of credibility" of the TSE, wrote the former president Carlos Mesa on Twitter, Morales' main rival in the October elections, according to opinion polls.

According to the renouncing, the primary elections were to be screened only for the general elections of 2024.

Sandoval's resignation took place two days after the president Morales has asked the TSE to investigate the weak participation of his party's party activists on Sunday.

The TSE reported that the ruling Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) had registered a 40% of the total of 991,092 activists.

"Someone wants to hurt us" in the TSE, said the president.

The opposition rejects Morales' candidacy for a fourth term with the argument that he does not know a 2016 referendum that rejected his candidacy, although the ruling party managed to get the approval of the Constitutional Court a year later, arguing that presenting oneself was a human right.