The National Board of National Justice elected six new judges of the Supreme Court of Justice, after concluding the personal interview and voting among those who were first in the final merit table.
Supreme judges Ulises Yaya Zumaeta, Carlos Alberto Calderón Puertas, Manuel Estuadro Luján Túpez, Emilia Bustamante Oyague, Víctor Antonio Castillo León and Roberto Rolando Burneo Bermejo were elected.
They had been among the top seven in the final merit table. Of this group, the lawyer Hugo Fernando Cavero Ruiz did not obtain the necessary votes to be elected.
The newly elected incumbent supreme judges are magistrates with many years of experience in the judiciary.
The table of merits moved more than expected, due to the previous scores that were known from the previous exams: knowledge, curricular evaluation and study of a hypothetical case. As it happened with the supreme prosecutors, the interview was the determining factor to be chosen.
The following in the table of merits and, therefore, with the possibility of reaching some of the other four vacancies still pending to be filled in the highest judicial instance of the country are:
Ramiro Bustamante Zegarra, Wilber Bustamante del Castillo, Silvia Consuelo Rueda Fernández, Cecilia Izaga Rodríguez, César Augusto Proaño Cueva, Edwin Rolando Laura Espinoza, Susana Ynes Castañeda Otsu, Yuri Jhon Pereira Alarcón, among others.
They may request that they be considered as reserve candidates to fill some of the already vacant seats in a new vote or another that occurs within the next 12 months.
With this appointment, the 10 vacant positions that had been in the Supreme Court since 2018 by the magistrates who retired or by the dismissal of supreme judges involved with the activities of the corruption network “Los Necks Blancos del Puerto” begin to be filled.
