Rules for judicial elections

Yesterday was discussed the rules for judicial elections. As always, the opposition complained about everything it could. It complained about the form of legislative debate. It complained about the terms of legislative debate. And, as always, too, demanded political consensus.

Childish doubt: isn't it better that the opposition is bent more on building political majorities to control the legislative process? So diminished and cornered is that it is incapable of doing this work, which is the most basic of democratic politics?

The sad thing is that opposition will complain anyway about government's political "rodillo" (roll), about that government uses it the most despotic form it could, about totalitarianism here, authoritarianism there, and all president's and indigenous' cursed ancestors yonder...

Few times Bolivia had the chance to see an opposition as mediocre as the present one: it's useless to articulate forces, but champion to complain and disqualify...

Bolivian opposition ... RIP

4 April marked one year since the last election held in Bolivia. After almost five years (18 December 2005 - April 4, 2010) with at least one electoral event every 10 months, a whole year without campaigns, conflicts, and polls is evident, very evident.

In my tenth kilometer wondered: has the opposition learned something of electoral competition in the last year without making a fool of in the polls? To obtain a reply, I sought what was said about it online and found the surprise that opposition not only has learned nothing, but every day is more and more stupid.

Living proof HoyBolivia.com appeared in a "mamarracho" of analysis titled "Lecciones de abril". Which would be the lessons according to the "brilliant analysis "? That government lost votes, that that the public has punished him, blah blah blah ... In other words, the same bunch of mindless crap that appeared after the April 4, 2010. Not a single neuron added to the awkwardness and deployed last year ...

The bottom line? Easy. The Bolivian opposition has been reduced to a minimum, to its current level of insignificance not only because doesn't have a project to offer to Bolivia, not only because the lack of leadership capable of articulating forces, not only because the total lack of organic base for minimum territorial work to create and align forces behind a project ... It's in the current plight because instead of analysis capabilities it overflows of political opinología crude and without any understanding of what is a force, how it behaves and how it manifests its power in the election results ...

Bolivian opposition ... RIP