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09-08-2011, 05:30 PM
As the National Judicial Council (CNM) sifts through the hundreds of applications for posts in the nation's highest courts, they promised to televise the process and scheduled a meeting for next Wednesday. The CNM met for the second time yesterday and unanimously approved a modification to the Fundamental Law of the Supreme Court of Justice to increase the number of judges from 16 to 17.
The Council also created a sub-commission, headed by the secretary of the CNM, Victor Jose Castellanos, Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena, and PRD Deputy Hugo Nunez. Their job will be to sift through the candidates and present a report by next Wednesday, when the Council will meet again, on the candidates who do not fulfill the requisites and those who have been eliminated.
The CNM meeting, which was chaired by President Leonel Fernandez and went on for more than two hours, accepted the publication of the biographies of the 285 aspiring candidates for seats on the Supreme Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court or the Supreme Electoral Court.
At the end of the meeting, held behind closed doors in the Council Room of the Presidential Palace, Presidential Minister Cesar Pina Toribio, who is the spokesman for the Council, said that the publication would include the evaluation of the performance of each of the judges as well as any disciplinary process that they have faced. Article 152 of the Constitution establishes that the SCJ is the highest judicial institution and that it will be made up of at least 16 judges. The decision to increase the number of judges on the SCJ is due to the fact that one of its representatives at the Council of the Judicial Branch cannot participate in the hearings and deliberations of the files. Pina Toribio said the judges also agreed to make public the interview process of the candidates to the high courts via radio, TV and the Internet.
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The Council also created a sub-commission, headed by the secretary of the CNM, Victor Jose Castellanos, Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena, and PRD Deputy Hugo Nunez. Their job will be to sift through the candidates and present a report by next Wednesday, when the Council will meet again, on the candidates who do not fulfill the requisites and those who have been eliminated.
The CNM meeting, which was chaired by President Leonel Fernandez and went on for more than two hours, accepted the publication of the biographies of the 285 aspiring candidates for seats on the Supreme Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court or the Supreme Electoral Court.
At the end of the meeting, held behind closed doors in the Council Room of the Presidential Palace, Presidential Minister Cesar Pina Toribio, who is the spokesman for the Council, said that the publication would include the evaluation of the performance of each of the judges as well as any disciplinary process that they have faced. Article 152 of the Constitution establishes that the SCJ is the highest judicial institution and that it will be made up of at least 16 judges. The decision to increase the number of judges on the SCJ is due to the fact that one of its representatives at the Council of the Judicial Branch cannot participate in the hearings and deliberations of the files. Pina Toribio said the judges also agreed to make public the interview process of the candidates to the high courts via radio, TV and the Internet.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)