The secretary of the National Magistracy Council (CNM), judge Frank Soto has said that prospects are excellent that 12 highly qualified judges for the Supreme Court of Justice will be selected in a transparent manner. He said that the judges would be chosen for the Supreme Court of Justice and the Superior Electoral Court, and when asked that the judges supporting former President Leonel Fernandez would be dismissed and replace by those for President Danilo Medina, he said that that was purely speculation.
When asked about the Odebrecht case judge, Francisco Ortega Polanco, he said that he would not be evaluated now, but in August, and he also said that Supreme Court president, Mariano German Mejía, would be evaluated in the same way as other judges, should he wish to continue.
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Listin Diario
8 January 2019
