Oscar Hassenteufel information

Oscar Hassenteufel
Official portrait, 2020
6th President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 April 2021
Preceded by	Salvador Romero [es]
President of the National Electoral Court of Bolivia
In office 5 November 2002 – 30 March 2006
Preceded by	Luis Ramiro Beltrán [es]
Succeeded by	Salvador Romero [es]
President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Bolivia
In office 1 June 1999 – 30 April 2001
Preceded by	Edgar Rosales
Succeeded by	Guillermo Arancibia (acting)
Additional judicial offices Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia Incumbent Assumed office 19 December 2019 Magistrate of the National Electoral Court of Bolivia In office 1 August 2001 – 30 March 2006 Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of Bolivia In office 18 February 1993 – 30 April 2001
Personal details
Born	Oscar Abel Hassenteufel Salazar (1945-04-14) 14 April 1945 (age 79) Ticucha, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Alma mater	University of San Francisco Xavier
Occupation	Jurist lawyer
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Oscar Abel Hassenteufel Salazar (/ˈhɑːsəntɔɪfəl/; born 14 April 1945) is a Bolivian lawyer and jurist serving as president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal since 2021. A perennial figure in the Bolivian judiciary, Hassenteufel previously held seats on the now-defunct Supreme Court of Justice from 1993 to 2001 and National Electoral Court from 2001 to 2006, presiding over both bodies from 1999 to 2001 and 2002 to 2006, respectively.

Raised in a political family from eastern Chuquisaca, Hassenteufel attended the University of San Francisco Xavier, where he earned a doctorate of law in 1969. Having clerked for the High Court of Chuquisaca while in university, he entered the legal field as an examining magistrate for the Vaca Díez and Azurduy provinces. In addition to his own private practice, Hassenteufel also held public positions in the Prosecutor's Office and Comptroller General's Office prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court. Elected by the National Congress in 1993, he assumed the presidency of the high court in 1999, a position he exercised until his resignation in 2001. Less than half a year after vacating his seat on the Supreme Court, Hassenteufel was appointed to the National Electoral Court, serving as its vice president from 2001 to 2002 and president from 2002 to 2006.

Following his retirement, Hassenteufel returned to private practice, during which time he headed the Professional Football League's Tribunal of Sports Justice. In 2019, he emerged from retirement to seek a seat on the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, whose previous members had been deposed and arrested amid an ongoing electoral and political crisis. Appointed alongside five other new members, Hassenteufel assisted in holding the snap 2020 general election and the 2021 regional elections that followed and assumed the presidency of the electoral court upon the resignation of his predecessor, Salvador Romero [es].