LatinNews Daily Report - 17 July 2012

JUSTICE | New supreme court president. On 16 July Ovidio Bonilla took up his post as the new head of the supreme court of justice (CSJ). El Salvador has two justice courts at the moment. Bonilla is one of several magistrates whose appointment on 24 April by the legislature was subsequently ruled unconstitutional on technical grounds by the constitutional chamber of the CSJ, sparking a major institutional crisis. The day that Bonilla took up the post, another magistrate, Florentín Meléndez, was also proclaimed the new CSJ president, following her designation by the outgoing president, José Belarmino Jaime.