Disenchantment with politics has led to judges gaining greater protagonism
The phenomenon of the judicialisation of politics in Latin America under debate.
"On 8 April, a debate workshop was held at the CIDOB Foundation titled “ The judiciary as a new political actor in Latin America”. Elena Martínez Barahona, researcher at the Inter-university Institute of Ibero-American Studies at the University of Salamanca presented a brief contribution to the debate on the different forms that the phenomenon of ""political judicialisation"" takes in the context of Latin America.
She explained that the crises in the forms of representation and in politics in general have led certain sectors to call on the judiciary for answers to problems which should normally be debated and solved in political spheres. In some Latin American countries, this has led to judges moving increasingly toward the centre of the political panorama, thereby causing democratic legitimacy to be relocated, to a certain extent (and fairly paradoxically), from the political system to the judicial system. The commentator at the debate workshop was Gerardo Pisarello, Assistant Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona."