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08-11-2011, 04:20 PM
Representatives of the Coalition for Transparency in the Election of Judges of the High Courts yesterday insisted that the process be public and televised and the selection not be held behind closed doors as they suspect is the intention. Coalition member Samir Chami Isa expressed his concern that the draft of the ruling that will be used to choose the judges has not been made public, as reported in El Dia.

The civic society representatives gathered in the Coalition asked the government to do a repeat of the open selection procedures used in 1997. The National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) has been convened as of today to confirm and select new members of the Supreme Court of Justice, and the new judges for the Higher Electoral Court and the Constitutional Court, two new courts created in the 2010 Constitution.

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