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03-07-2008, 03:50 PM
The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) believes that a motion apparently being planned by political parties to press for the substitution of seven judges on the Supreme Court of Justice would reverse 10 years of progress in the Dominican legal and judicial system. FINJUS vice president Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman said that if the motion is really in the works, it would be an attack on institutionalism in the DR. Castanos expressed concern that the reshuffling of the Supreme Court would be in the hands of the political parties, as was the case in 2001. He added that although he doesn't question the integrity of the judges chosen at that time, he was critical of the way they were chosen and of the lack of transparency in the selection process.
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