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02-28-2007, 05:50 PM
The entire Central Electoral Board (JCE) met on Monday night and voted to recognize the incontrovertible legality of the judges' pay incentives that cover overtime and work on legal holidays. Recently appointed judge Aura Celeste Fernandez has denounced the controversial payments as illegal and corrupt, on the grounds that they were devised to compensate for income tax and retirement deductions from the judges' basic salary. The new agreement stipulates that further remunerations may not take any tax deductions or other deductibles into consideration and that furthermore, all additional wages are also subject to income tax payments. According to the judges' written statement released to the press, "a majority" voted to keep the pay incentives. However, president of the JCE, Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman, Aura Celeste Fernandez and the judge who heads the Disputes Chamber, Mariano Rodriguez, have all refused to accept the payments on principle.
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