Assembly stalemate broken

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After numerous discussions and the presentation of a report by the Verification and Auditing Commission, the stalemate between the PLD and PRD about the composition of the National Magistrates Council (CNM) has been broken. The stalemate had paralyzed the Constitutional Revisory Assembly's work since last Tuesday, after the terms of the pact signed by President Leonel Fernandez and PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado that shifted the make-up of the body that appoints judges were rejected. The Assembly has now agreed that the remaining members of the CNM will come from the largest opposition party, which in this case, is the PRD. Voters agreed 169 in favor and 18 against, in keeping with the original terms of the pact. PRSC assembly member Ramon Rogelio Genao voted against the decision and said he would take the issue to the Supreme Court. The CNM will now be made up by the President, the president of the Senate, a Senator, from a party that is different to that of the President's, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, a Deputy that belongs to the largest opposition party, the president of the Supreme Court, a second judge chosen by the Supreme Court's President and the DR's Attorney General.

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