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06-29-2011, 03:00 PM
The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) has asked the National Council of Magistrates (CNM) to start working on the evaluation of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) and the election of the judges who will fill the vacancies. On Tuesday, executive director Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman said Finjus expects President Fernandez to convene the CNM next month.
El Nuevo Diario said that once the Council of Magistrates is seated and the rules established by the fundamental law are approved, Finjus expects the Council to proceed with the election of the judges who will sit on the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the Higher Electoral Court. Castanos said that the order in which the new judges are selected is highly significant in that it ensures the transparency and legitimacy that are required in order for these courts to be accepted by the Dominican society as the expression of the proper functioning of the National Council of Magistrates. The President and the ruling party have the majority vote in the composition of the CNM and so this is expected to reflect ruling party interests. Nonetheless, Castanos said this should not prevent society from demanding objectivity and responsibility in the decisions of the CNM, especially in light of the fact that two representatives of the CNM will not be from the ruling party.
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El Nuevo Diario said that once the Council of Magistrates is seated and the rules established by the fundamental law are approved, Finjus expects the Council to proceed with the election of the judges who will sit on the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the Higher Electoral Court. Castanos said that the order in which the new judges are selected is highly significant in that it ensures the transparency and legitimacy that are required in order for these courts to be accepted by the Dominican society as the expression of the proper functioning of the National Council of Magistrates. The President and the ruling party have the majority vote in the composition of the CNM and so this is expected to reflect ruling party interests. Nonetheless, Castanos said this should not prevent society from demanding objectivity and responsibility in the decisions of the CNM, especially in light of the fact that two representatives of the CNM will not be from the ruling party.
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