{"id":208819,"date":"2023-12-28T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=208819"},"modified":"2023-12-28T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:55:39","slug":"napoleon-estevez-lavandier-to-take-office-at-constitutional-court-on-28-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/12\/28\/napoleon-estevez-lavandier-to-take-office-at-constitutional-court-on-28-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon Estevez Lavandier to take office at Constitutional Court on 28 December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Napoleon-Estevez-Lavandier-El-Dia-1024x711.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196496\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The era of Milton Ray Guevara as the highly respected president of the Constitutional Court comes to an end on Thursday, 28 December 2023. Ray Guevara presided the court in its first 12 years \u2013 2011 to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five judges will take office beginning their nine-year terms at the highest court, including Napoleon Ricardo Estevez Lavandier as the new presiding judge. The other four judges are Fidias Federico Aristy Payano, Amaury Amilcar Reyes Torres, Sonia Argentina Diaz Inoa and Army Esperanza Ferreira Reyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judges are replacing Lino V\u00e1squez Samuel, V\u00edctor Joaqu\u00edn Castellanos, Justo Pedro Castellanos and Rafael D\u00edaz, who ceased their duties on Wednesday, 27 December after having served 12 years in the high court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five new judges will join judges Domingo Antonio Gil, Alba Luisa Beard Marcos, Mar\u00eda del Carmen Santana de Cabera, Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Ayuso, Miguel An\u00edbal Valera Montero, Manuel Ulises Bonelly Vega, Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Ayuso Vargas and Eunice V\u00e1squez Acosta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the new composition, judges Miguel An\u00edbal Valera Montero and Eunisis V\u00e1squez Acosta will serve as first and second substitutes for the president of the TC, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To close his 12 years at the helm of the Constitutional Court, Milton Ray Guevara presented the Constitutional Intelligence Laboratory, an initiative with high-level technological tools to improve access of the general public to constitutional justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lab facilitates information online on the Constitution, the rulings issued by the high court, the statements, the news, and the rules and regulations that govern the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his last day as president of the Constitutional Court, Ray Guevara called on the new magistrates who will make up the plenary session to continue strengthening the image of the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They must continue to earn the trust of the Dominican people\u2026 That the court not serve popular groups, political groups, partisan groups, social groups, economic groups, that it be loyal to the Constitution,&#8221; said Ray Guevara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray Guevara also announced at the end of his term that the offices where the Constitutional Court is located are now in the name of the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/el-tc-entra-a-nueva-etapa-manana\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2023\/12\/04\/tribunal-constitucional-laboratorio-inteligencia-constitucional\/2541727\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2023\/12\/27\/despedida-de-milton-ray-guevara-en-el-tc-y-lo-que-dijo-de-sustituto\/2561893\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2023\/12\/28\/cinco-jueces-se-juramentan-hoy-en-el-tribunal-constitucional\/2562181\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/a-horas-de-dejar-el-tc-ray-guevara-llama-a-nuevos-miembros-a-impedir-injerencias-externas-1559354\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/tc-pide-respetar-legado-apegado-a-la-etica-y-moral\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/pais\/inespre-entrega-al-tribunal-constitucional-el-titulo-de-propiedad-del-edificio-que-aloja-a-esa-alta-corte\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/justicia\/20231228\/magistrados-juramentan-hoy_788688.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/justicia\/20231228\/emotiva-despedida-ayer-jueces-salientes-tribunal-constitucional_788662.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 December 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of Milton Ray Guevara as the highly respected president of the Constitutional Court comes to an end on Thursday, 28 December 2023. Ray Guevara presided the court in its first 12 years \u2013 2011 to 2023. Five judges will take office beginning their nine-year terms at the highest court, including Napoleon Ricardo Estevez &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/12\/28\/napoleon-estevez-lavandier-to-take-office-at-constitutional-court-on-28-december-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208853,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208819\/revisions\/208853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}