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12-20-2011, 02:50 PM
Zero hour has arrived. The selection, beginning today, of 40 members of the high courts has upped the temperature of the nation's judicial system. The expectations increase with respect to who will finally occupy those seats. The National Judicial Council (CNM) set for 5pm the start of a working session in the Presidential Palace to appoint the judges of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the Constitutional Court (TC), and lay out the restructuring of the Supreme Court of Justice.
This will be the first time that the CNM will appoint judges to the TSE and the TC, and the third time that it meets to replace members of the Supreme Court.
The Council entered the deliberation phase after hearing judges Rafael Luciano Pichardo, the presiding judge in the SCJ Civil Chamber, Hugo Alvarez Valencia, from the Penal Chamber and Juan Luperon Vasquez, from the Land, Labor and Administration Chamber, who all presented a report on the performance of their jurisdictions over the last 14 years. The 17 judges of the SCJ will be selected from 149 candidates who were evaluated during the public hearings held by the CNM. Likewise, of the 119 aspiring jurists vying for posts on the TC, the CNM will select 13 magistrates.
In the case of the TSE, five titular judges and an equal number of substitutes will be selected from among the 71 candidates who were examined. The last people to be examined were 8 of the 14 judges who currently sit on the Supreme Court of Justice. The CNM decreed that they would begin with the designations for the TSE, where besides selecting the five judges and their substitutes they (the TSE) have to decide which of them will be the presiding judge of the tribunal that will deal with contentious issues in elections as the only and last court of appeal.
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This will be the first time that the CNM will appoint judges to the TSE and the TC, and the third time that it meets to replace members of the Supreme Court.
The Council entered the deliberation phase after hearing judges Rafael Luciano Pichardo, the presiding judge in the SCJ Civil Chamber, Hugo Alvarez Valencia, from the Penal Chamber and Juan Luperon Vasquez, from the Land, Labor and Administration Chamber, who all presented a report on the performance of their jurisdictions over the last 14 years. The 17 judges of the SCJ will be selected from 149 candidates who were evaluated during the public hearings held by the CNM. Likewise, of the 119 aspiring jurists vying for posts on the TC, the CNM will select 13 magistrates.
In the case of the TSE, five titular judges and an equal number of substitutes will be selected from among the 71 candidates who were examined. The last people to be examined were 8 of the 14 judges who currently sit on the Supreme Court of Justice. The CNM decreed that they would begin with the designations for the TSE, where besides selecting the five judges and their substitutes they (the TSE) have to decide which of them will be the presiding judge of the tribunal that will deal with contentious issues in elections as the only and last court of appeal.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)