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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 30 November 2018
EL SALVADOR: Key judicial posts filled
After nearly four months of delay, El Salvador’s 84-member legislature has elected four new magistrates for the five-member constitutional chamber (SC) of the supreme court (CSJ), along with one new magistrate to the civil chamber, for nine-year terms. Widely viewed as having defended due process and the rule of law, as well as issuing various emblematic rulings, the outgoing four SC justices (nicknamed the ‘Fantastic Four’) had been uncharacteristically independent, proving a thorn in the side of both the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena). Given this, the appointments of their replacements came under considerable scrutiny.
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