Decree No. 215-2013 Election of Judicial Council Members

This decree appoints five lawyers as counselors of the Judicial Council for a five-year term, eligible for one reelection. It aims to organize the Judiciary more efficiently, professionally, and free from political interference in the selection of judges and judicial officials.

Whereas, after the approval and ratification of Decree No. 263-2010 containing the constitutional reform of Article 313, numerals 1), 8), 9), 10), 11), and 12), and Article 317, which modify the powers of the Supreme Court of Justice and define the term of members of the Judicial Council and the Judicial Career, it is of priority approval within the legal framework that develops such reforms; to structure a Judicial Branch organized functionally in a more efficient manner that allows for the specialization of functions by separating administrative and financial matters from jurisdictional activity, and likewise that selection processes for Judges, Magistrates, and other judicial auxiliaries, employees, and officials of the Judicial Branch be developed in an independent, professional, and transparent manner, free from political, economic, and any other form of interference.

Whereas, the processes of reform and modernization of the State have constructed structures that respond to its objectives, in order to make the administration of resources more efficient and transparent, and thus strengthen the democratic rule of law.