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08-03-2011, 04:10 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has convened the National Council of Magistrates (CNM) for Thursday, 11 August, in order to begin the process of appointing the judges of the Higher Electoral (TSE) and Constitutional (TC) courts. The meeting is set for noon at the Presidential Palace and the agenda also includes the replacement of 13 Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) judges who are over the age of 75 and filling the vacancies left by the magistrates of the highest court who have died.
Presidential Minister, Cesar Pina Toribio announced the President's decision at a press conference in his office in the Presidential Palace. Pina said that the CNM would take on "the adoption of two regulations that are pending by virtue of the Law that created the National Council of Magistrates." He cited the acknowledgement of the application of the Fundamental Law of the CNM and the regulation on the evaluation of the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice. Pina Toribio said that all of the work sessions of the Council of Magistrates would take place in the Presidential Palace as established in the law that covers the agency.
The Presidential Minister did not give any opinion on the privileges that the judges who are due for replacement are requesting for their retirement, saying he believes that the CNM members should be the ones to issue the official position.
Because they are over the age of 75, the CNM has to replace magistrates Rafael Luciano Pichardo, the Deputy Chief Justice of the SCJ, Hugo Alvarez Valencia, the chief magistrate of the Penal Chamber, Juan Luperon Vasquez, the chief magistrate of the Third Chamber; Jose E. Hernandez Machado, Pedro Romero Confesor and Dario Fernandez Espinal. They also have to fill the vacancies left by the deaths of Judges Julio Ibarra Rios and Margarita Tavarez. In the meantime, they will submit ten judges who aspire to the SCJ for evaluation, including the current chief justice, Jorge Subero Isa.
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Presidential Minister, Cesar Pina Toribio announced the President's decision at a press conference in his office in the Presidential Palace. Pina said that the CNM would take on "the adoption of two regulations that are pending by virtue of the Law that created the National Council of Magistrates." He cited the acknowledgement of the application of the Fundamental Law of the CNM and the regulation on the evaluation of the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice. Pina Toribio said that all of the work sessions of the Council of Magistrates would take place in the Presidential Palace as established in the law that covers the agency.
The Presidential Minister did not give any opinion on the privileges that the judges who are due for replacement are requesting for their retirement, saying he believes that the CNM members should be the ones to issue the official position.
Because they are over the age of 75, the CNM has to replace magistrates Rafael Luciano Pichardo, the Deputy Chief Justice of the SCJ, Hugo Alvarez Valencia, the chief magistrate of the Penal Chamber, Juan Luperon Vasquez, the chief magistrate of the Third Chamber; Jose E. Hernandez Machado, Pedro Romero Confesor and Dario Fernandez Espinal. They also have to fill the vacancies left by the deaths of Judges Julio Ibarra Rios and Margarita Tavarez. In the meantime, they will submit ten judges who aspire to the SCJ for evaluation, including the current chief justice, Jorge Subero Isa.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)