Judge Gladys Gutiérrez reported that Judge Edgar Gavidia and Henri Timaure were elected as first and second vice president of the Supreme Court, respectively.
Gladys Gutiérrez was appointed as president of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) for the next 12 years. This was confirmed by the magistrate herself on April 27, one day after being sworn in before the National Assembly (AN) elected in 2020.
Judge Edgar Gavidia and Henri Timaure were elected as first and second vice president of the High Court, respectively. Gladys Gutiérrez reported that Judge Malaquias Gil was elected president of the Political-Administrative Chamber and Barbara César second vice president.
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According to Gutiérrez, magistrates Fanny Márquez and Carlisia Rodríguez were appointed as president and first vice president of the Electoral Chamber and magistrates Henri Timaure and José Luis Gutiérrez as president and vice president of the Civil Cassation.
Meanwhile, Elsa Gómez and Carmen Castro were appointed president and vice president, respectively, of the Criminal Cassation Chamber and Edgar Gavidia and Carlos Castillo as president and vice president of the Social Cassation Chamber.
TSJ in charge of Gladys Gutiérrez
The new authorities of the TSJ were appointed during the ordinary session of the AN on April 26, , one month after the expiration of the legal period to complete this process, in accordance with the Organic Law of the TSJ. The list of names was presented by the president of the Judicial Nominations Committee, deputy from the ruling caucus Giuseppe Alessandrello.
12 of the 20 magistrates that make up the TSJ repeat in office to remain in the Dos Pilitas headquarters, and will exceed the constitutional limit of 12 years for those judicial positions.
Among the main ones who repeat in office is Gladys Gutiérrez, who is a lawyer from the UCV and for a decade, since 2010, she was a magistrate of the TSJ. Within the institution, she served as president of the Constitutional Chamber and of the entire highest court, between 2013 and 2017.
Gutiérrez He starred in the sentence that denied the review of the electoral results of the 2013 presidential election that was denounced in court by Henrique Capriles as fraudulent, and in which Nicolás Maduro won by just 1.5% of the votes.
In the address of this April 27, the first as magistrate of the new period asserted that the body of magistrates will assume the challenges that must be assumed to “obtain the protection of the rights” of Venezuelans. She promised on behalf of the new authorities to renew and restructure the process to increase “effective judicial protection.”
The legal period for the appointment of new magistrates of the TSJ was completed on March 26. The process had advanced rapidly to its final stage. Parliamentary sources told SuchWhich at the end of March that the reasons for the delay of the Judicial Nomination Committee was due to discrepancies in the ruling party’s caucus.
The AN dominated by Chavismo deferred the appointment of the new judicial authorities at least eight times. The first time was on March 25, this day the vice president of the Judicial Nomination Committee, deputy from the opposition caucus José Gregorio Correa, proposed to the plenary to postpone the date of the appointment with the allegation that there was a lack of conversation in the process.
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