2024-08-22 06:31:32
Six lawyers from the Republic presented their certificates and explained to the deputies of the Political Commission the reasons why they seek to serve as magistrates in the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), in the period 2024-2033.
“The process we are carrying out is transparent and open to the public, thereby guaranteeing the principle of publicity. Likewise, the applicants must be duly accredited and meet the legal requirements established by the Constitution of the Republic,” said the president of the commission, Ernesto Castro.
In the second working session of the said working group, the parliamentarians received Juana Jeanneth Corvera de Meléndez, who was an assistant prosecutor and has worked at the Judicial Training School of the National Council of the Judiciary (CNJ).
Also to the substitute judge of the Fifth Civil and Commercial Court, Claus Arthur Flores Acosta; to Ivonne Lizzette Flores, who is a magistrate of the Civil Court of Santa Ana and has been a Civil and Commercial judge of Sonsonate and head of the Civil Court of Apopa.
In addition, the deputies also learned about the profile of Ramón Iván García, who is a substitute judge of the Constitutional Chamber and a judge of the First Criminal Chamber. This lawyer was a judge of the Sentencing Court of Sonsonate and a judge of the Second Instance Chamber of Cojutepeque, department of Cuscatlán.
Finally, the commission interviewed Jesús Ulises García, who has been a Justice of the Peace and a judge of the Fifth Sentencing Court; and Ramón Narciso Granados Zelaya.
So far, the deputies have seen the files of 12 candidates; in the next working session, which will take place on August 26, they will receive another six candidates: Santos Guerra Grijalva, Karen Jasmine Hernandez Salmeron, Marta Maria Iglesias Majano, Oscar Alberto Lopez Jerez, Jose Fernando Marroquin Galo and Jose Antonio Martinez.
At the end of the interview process, the 60 parliamentarians will have to choose five regular magistrates and nine alternates for the CSJ. This is in accordance with article 186, second paragraph, of the Constitution of the Republic: “The magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice will be elected by the Legislative Assembly for a period of nine years (…)”. This is also established in article 99 of the Internal Regulations of the Legislative Assembly (RIAL).