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LatinNews Daily Report - 26 July 2013

In Brief – El Salvador & Nicaragua

JUDICIARY | CCR magistrates appointed (again). On 25 July El Salvador’s national assembly appointed justices to the three-member Corte de Cuentas de la República (CCR), a body nominally independent of the three branches of government, whose remit it is to monitor the transparency of public accounts. This is the fourth time that the national assembly has been forced to make the appointments to fill vacancies that have been pending for six months, after the constitutional chamber of the supreme justice court rejected the previous choices on the grounds that they were affiliated to political parties. This had provoked a strong reaction from President Mauricio Funes, who warned that the resultant uncertainty was deterring investors and could even threaten the 2014 March presidential elections, as candidates need to have their accounts scrutinised by the CCR before they can register with the supreme electoral tribunal.

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