The Lima Bar Association told the lawyer Cesar Humberto Bazan Naveda as the new dean of the institution. The notary obtained 15,520 votes in a tight contest. The Voting took place last Saturday, March 26 at the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM).
After the second round count, the list represented by César Bazán Naveda obtained a simple majority of the votes cast, for which he was declared the winner of the elections, beating the lawyer Javier Villa-Stein, who obtained 14,211 votes. Bazán will take over the position held until now by Maria Elena Portocarrero Zamora.
After the results were known, Bazán greeted the process and stressed the importance of the elections: “It is not good that our School, being an example of democracy, has not been during the last two years. It’s not going to happen again.”
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The first round held on Saturday, March 5, summoned the members of the Order of CAL to go to the polls and elect their new union authorities: Board of Directors, Surveillance Board and Assembly of Delegates. The election of the new dean could not be finalized, since no candidate obtained a simple majority of the votes cast, that is, half plus one.
Although attorney Villa Stein obtained the largest number of votes in the first round (11,540), he only reached 35% of the total, so the authorities called for a second round. The vote took place this Saturday, March 26, in person at the University City of the Dean of America.
Who is the new dean?
the notary Bazan Naveda He is a lawyer from the San Martín de Porres University and has a master’s degree in Civil and Commercial Law and a doctorate in Education. Also, he was president of the Board of Deans of the Associations of Notaries of Peru in the period 2009-2010.
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In an interview, Bazán pointed out that “an audit should be carried out to analyze the state of affairs after the ‘de facto management’”, this in order to strengthen the legal institutions of the country. Also, he pointed out that it should be “promote the reactivation of face-to-face work in the Judicial Powersince this must provide legal certainty, and correct and impartial care”.
Full JNE is completed
In accordance with article 179 of the Political Constitution, the JNE as the highest electoral body is made up of a plenary session of five members. One of them is elected by secret ballot by the CAL among its members. However, this place was deserted since 2020 after the departure of the magistrate Raul Chaname Orb.
With the vote of an average of 35,000 legal professionals on March 5, it was decided at the polls that the representative of the Lima Bar Association (CAL) before the National Elections Jury (JNE) would be the lawyer Willy Ramirez Chavarry.
Ramírez Chávarry is a lawyer from the San Martín de Porres University (USMP) with a doctorate in Law from the Alas Peruanas University. He records professional experience at the Lima Bar Association and as a teacher at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, USMP, among others.
