President Danilo Medina has called for a meeting of the Council of Magistrates of the Nation (CNM) for Monday 15 May 2017, legal advisor Flavio Darío Espinal announced in a press conference on Tuesday, 25 April. This is in compliance with CNM Law 138-11. It is the first time that President Medina has convened the council.
The objectives of the council meeting are to choose five new members of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) at the expiration of the term of the present judges, and to appoint two judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ).
The CNM needs to replace Julio César Castaños Guzmán, the Supreme Court of Justice judge who was appointed to preside over the Central Electoral Board (JCE) and judge Martha Olga García Santamaría, given that she has reached the retirement age for judges (75 years).
The members of the Council of Magistrates of the Nation are: President Danilo Medina, Attorney General Jean-Alain Rodríguez, Supreme Court of Justice president Mariano Germán Mejía; Supreme Court of Justice judge Frank Euclides Soto Sánchez; the president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared Pérez and the president of the Chamber of Deputies Lucía Medina, both of the ruling PLD party, and opposition senator José Paliza and deputy Josefa Castillo, as representatives of the party with the second largest representation in Congress, both of the PRM.
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Al Momento
7 Dias
26 April 2017
