National Council of the Magistracy (Dominican Republic)
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The National Council of the Magistracy (Spanish: Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura) is the Dominican constitutional body responsible for appointing judges of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the Superior Electoral Court of the Dominican Republic.
The NCM is also the organ called to conduct performance evaluations of judges of the Supreme Court.
The NCM appears in Dominican Republic for the constitutional amendment of 1994, whose existence is recognized promotion and the late José Francisco Peña Gómez, top leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) as a result of the political crisis of the time.
His skills and integration were altered in the new Dominican constitution of 2010.
Composition
The National Council of the Magistracy is chaired by the President of the Republic.
The rest of its composition is as follows:[1]
- The President of the Senate of the Republic,
- One senator chosen by the Senate belonging to a different party or bloc of parties to the President of the Senate and holding the majority representation of the second;
- The President of the Chamber of Deputies.
- 1 of deputy chosen by the Chamber of Deputies belonging to a different party or bloc of parties to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and holding the majority representation of the second;
- The President of the Supreme Court,
- 1 judge of the Supreme Court, and
- The Attorney General of the Republic.