Francisco Dominguez Brito, a former district attorney and now president of the Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice (Finjus), appealed to President Hipolito Mejia not to allow politics to prevail in the selection of the three new Supreme Court judges. In an open letter published in the El Caribe newspaper, Dominguez warned that PRD politicians want to appoint judges who resolve judicial problems with a phone call or a presentation card, outside of the rule of law. He points out that yesterday the National School of Magistracy called for a tender to accept new candidates for judges. “This unprecedented event should have made the front pages of the newspaper, but it was not like that. The first pages were occupied by headlines that point to the interests of (PRD and PRSC) party leaders in bringing politics back to dominate the judiciary,” he said. He urged that the President appeal to his conscience so as not to be seen as an accomplice to the crumbling of the judicial system and the “father of the counter reform of the judiciary.”
