Santo Domingo.- The National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) on Friday chose Unanimity to Yeni Berenice Reynoso as new attorney general of the Republic, who will replace Miriam Germán.
The announcement was made by Nancy Salcedo, secretary of the CNM, in the presence of the other members, after a meeting of less than two hours the afternoon of this Friday at the National Palace headed by President Luis Abinader, who presides.
Reynoso, who was proposed by Abinader, served as an attached attachment in charge of the Persecution Directorate of the Public Ministry since August 2020.
When pronouncing a few words, the president defined the session as “historical”, for being the first of a CNM to choose the Attorney General of the Republic and the attached attorneys.
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The new attorney will be sworn by President Abinader on February 27, National Independence Day, together with the other officials of both the Public Ministry and the Executive Power.
This the first time that an attached attorney is selected to direct the Public Ministry. In addition, this is the first election of a Attorney General by the CNM, after approved modification of his Organic Law, to vary articles 2 and 3.
Salcedo reported that the CNM will remain in permanent session until Monday at 2:00 in the afternoon when it will meet again to choose seven attachments, whose process is more complex.
This is Fiordaliza Alduey Mercedes, Emilio Rodríguez Montilla, Isis Hermania de la Cruz Duarte, María del Carmen de León, Osvaldo Antonio Bonilla, Felipe Herrera and Iván Féliz.
The CNM is integrated, in addition to President Abinader, by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Luis Henry Molina; Ricardo de los Santos, president of the Senate; Alfredo Pacheco, president of the Chamber of Deputies; Nancy Salcedo, secretary of the SCJ; Napoleon R. Estévez Lavandier, president of the Constitutional Court; as well as the senator of the National District, Omar Fernández, and Deputy Tobias Crespo.
Yeni Berenice Reynoso profile
Yeni Berenice Reynoso Gómez was born October 25, 1980 in La Isabela, Luperón municipality of the province of Puerto Plata (North).
In 2002, he began his higher studies at the Technological University of Santiago (UTESA), where he obtained the Bachelor of Law.
With just 17 years of age, Reynoso began his judicial career in the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal and in the Prosecutor’s Office of Santiago as a voluntary legal.
In 2005 he entered the National School of the Public Ministry, thus initiating his career in the institution.
There he obtained a qualification of excellence in his evaluation, highlighting as a litigator, researcher and conciliatory, qualities for which he held the quality control position in the entity.
After working several years at the Santiago Prosecutor’s Office, in 2011, Reynoso was appointed by the Superior Council of the Public Ministry (CSMP) as a fiscal attorney for the National District, a position he held until September 2018.
That same year, the CSMP amounted to the Attorney General’s Attorney General in the Regional Attorney’s Office of the National District, the position of greater hierarchy within the Public Ministry’s career.
Two years later, in August 2020, President Abinader appointed her as an attached attorney, since until now she performed.
