{"id":243942,"date":"2025-11-12T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=243942"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:27:51","slug":"choosing-supreme-court-and-superior-electoral-court-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/11\/12\/choosing-supreme-court-and-superior-electoral-court-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Supreme Court and Superior Electoral Court judges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luis-Abinader-CNM-Presidencia-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243971\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luis-Abinader-CNM-Presidencia-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luis-Abinader-CNM-Presidencia-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luis-Abinader-CNM-Presidencia-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luis-Abinader-CNM-Presidencia.png 1526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) met to study the profiles of aspirants to positions open in the Supreme Court of Justice and the Superior Electoral Court. President Luis Abinader convened the CNM to fill the judge openings from the 21 pre-selected aspirants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader presided over the five-minute presentations by the candidates. The members of the National Council of Magistracy had the right to ask questions for a 15-minute period. The videos of the participations were streamed online and can be seen in the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aspirants for the Supreme Court of Justice are:<br>Edynson Francisco Alarc\u00f3n Polanco SCJ<br>Miguelina de Jes\u00fas Beard G\u00f3mez SCJ<br>Julio C\u00e9sar Emilio Can\u00f3 Alfau SCJ<br>Franklin Emilio Concepci\u00f3n Acosta SCJ<br>Karina Concepci\u00f3n Medina SCJ<br>Ylona Mar\u00eda De la Rocha Camilo SCJ<br>Mat\u00edas Modesto Del Rosario Romero SCJ<br>Catalina Ferrera Cuevas SCJ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aspirants for the Superior Electoral Court are:<br>Elisa Alexandra Abreu Jim\u00e9nez TSE<br>Juan Angom\u00e1s Alc\u00e1ntara TSE<br>Joaquincito Bocio Familia TSE<br>Francisco Eugenio Cabrera Mata TSE<br>Ygnacio Pascual Camacho Hidalgo TSE<br>Freddy \u00c1ngel Castro D\u00edaz TSE<br>Juan Bautista Cuevas Medrano TSE<br>Fernando Fern\u00e1ndez Cruz TSE<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aspiring candidates for either higher court position<br>Melkis Antigua SCJ or TSE<br>Ursula Josefina Carrasco M\u00e1rquez de Suberv\u00ed SCJ or TSE<br>Yrcania Ibelice Casado Pimentel SCJ or TSE<br>Erasmo Dur\u00e1n Beltre SCJ or TSE<br>William Radham\u00e9s Encarnaci\u00f3n Mej\u00eda SCJ or TSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@consejonacionaldelamagistr9513\">Streamed presentations of the candidates <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/consejo-nacional-de-la-magistratura-vistas-publicas--2017480\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/consejo-nacional-de-la-magistratura-evalua-aspirantes-a-scj-y-tse\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.com.do\/nacionales\/abinader-encabeza-vistas-publicas-del-cnm-para-elegir-jueces-de-la-scj-y-tse\/\">CDN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cnm.gob.do\/\">CNM <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/30\/overhaul-of-supreme-court-judges-will-take-place-as-abinader-presides-the-national-council-of-the-magistracy\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 November 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) met to study the profiles of aspirants to positions open in the Supreme Court of Justice and the Superior Electoral Court. President Luis Abinader convened the CNM to fill the judge openings from the 21 pre-selected aspirants. President Luis Abinader presided over the five-minute presentations by the candidates. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/11\/12\/choosing-supreme-court-and-superior-electoral-court-judges\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243942"}],"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=243942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243973,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243942\/revisions\/243973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}