The National Magistracy Council (CNM) announced that 184 candidacies were received at deadline for the selection of four judges of the Supreme Court of Justice and five judges of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and their five replacements. The CNM had given 15 days for people to register.
The procedure continues with citizen objections to these candidacies received through Saturday, 1 July 2017 at the secretary of the Supreme Court of Justice. A letter with the reasons for the objections needs to be submitted. Then, on Tuesday, 4 July 2017, the CNM meets to begin the evaluations of the candidates.
As reported, the National Business Council (19) and the Fundación Cruz Jiminián (11) were the entities that sent the most candidates.
Among the candidates are the former president of the Supreme Court of Justice Jorge Subero Isa who aspires to be elected a judge of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and judge José Alejandro Vargas, who recently was in the news when he objected the homologation of the Odebrecht deal signed by the Attorney General.
Three members of the TSE are seeking to be kept in their ppositions, including the president of the entity, Mariano Américo Rodríguez Rijo, and Fausto Marino Mendoza Rodríguez and John Newton Guiliani Valenzuela. The later also applied to be chosen a Supreme Court of Justice judge.
See the list of candidates at: CNM
29 June 2017
