The president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Jorge Subero Isa said that he first offered the post of director of the Escuela Nacional de la Magistratura, the new school to form Dominican judges, to the former president of the Supreme Court Manuel Bergés Chupani, who turned it down due to his old age. He then offered it to Bernardo Fernández Pichardo, who neither accepted the nomination. It was only then that he offered the post to lawyer Juan Manuel Pellerano Gómez who accepted the challenge. General Attorney of the Nation, Abel Rodríguez del Orbe has criticized the appointment of Juan Manuel Pellerano Gomez, given that the later is the chief lawyer of the largest legal firm in the country. Rodríguez del Orbe has said that Pellerano’s influence on the new judges would result in continuous conflicts of interest."
