The National Assembly (AN) has up to two sessions to make a decision related to the appointment of magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
The information comes from parliamentary sources, who recalled that the AN has already complied with the requirement of the five days assigned by Law to evaluate the list of 254 candidates for the TSJ that the Citizen Power delivered on Tuesday, March 22. From that list, the AN must choose 20 main magistrates, 20 substitutes, as well as the General Inspector of Courts and the Director of the National School of the Magistracy, as established by the reformed Organic Law of the TSJ.
Since that Tuesday, March 22, the five continuous days granted by law to parliament began to run to evaluate the list of candidates. Those five days concluded this Saturday.
Precisely one day before the deadline, that is to say this Friday, the AN convened an ordinary session where the first point was the “definitive selection for the designation of candidates for the positions of magistrates of the TSJ; Inspector or General Inspector of Courts, Director of the National School of the Judiciary”.
Touching on this point, deputy Giuseppe Alessandrello, president of the Judicial Nominations Committee, took the floor, suggesting that “the AN should analyze in greater depth the list presented by the Republican Moral Council, the governing body of Citizen Power.”
Deputy José Gregorio Correa, vice president of the Nominating Committee, spoke next, saying that “even when hard and detailed work has been done, more time is required to elect a TSJ by consensus and not by majority, because that is what the Justice”. Correa proposed to the plenary to defer the point because “this topic lacks conversation.”
The president of the AN, deputy Jorge Rodríguez, submitted Correa’s proposal to a vote, which was approved.
In the last hours there have been meetings between different sectors of the country to build a consensus around the magistrates of the high court of Venezuela, who will serve a period of 12 years.
