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The body will badyze the expansion of the registration of more candidates. In addition, announces the badessment to judges and prosecutors.

In the hands of the Judicial Council in charge is a new decision: resume the selection contests of provincial judges, prosecutors and other officials for the country's judicial system, or initiate a new process.

Yesterday, the plenary session of the Transitional Council for Citizen Participation decided to lift the suspension of this task, which had been arranged almost three months ago, while the evaluation ended with the departure of the authorities of the judiciary.

Julio César Trujillo, president of the transitional body, pointed out that now the judiciary "has all the faculties" to reopen the process, declare it deserted, summon a new "or what is well resolved."

He argued that "he is totally independent" institution that he directs. "So, what they will decide, no longer depends on us," he said at a press conference

The decision was made while Marcelo Merlo Jaramillo, who replaced Gustavo Jalkh to the presidency of the judiciary, appeared. Merlo said that it will be up to the plenary of the Council to define "how it will continue these competitions" and badyze the possibility of registering new participants, with the support of the Commission of the Assembly Accounts to present a report.

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The official explained that for the selection of officials of the National Court, the Central Judiciary and the Provinces, 60,187 files were submitted between January 23rd and February 13th of this year.

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One thousand dollars cost the contract for a platform for this contest. Merlo did not specify the number of vacancies planned (unofficially it turned out that it would be 7,000 vacancies). However, he noted that he was struck by the fact that only four challenges had been registered and that these had, moreover, been rejected.

In the case of the 300 posts that should be filled in the prosecutor's offices, he mentioned that between 12 and 21 January, 12,176 applicants were registered, of whom 5,743 were disqualified for not have met the requirements.

He is surprised that in this process, only five challenges have been given. "Something is going on, we are going to worry that it does not continue to happen, according to transparency," he said.

They had a psychological test and there were 5,903 people who received a bank of 2,200 questions for a theory test. they should surrender on 6 April, one day after the suspension of the competition

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The judiciary must decide when the competition is terminated. But within the Oversight Commission, the main concern of the ruling party and the opposition was the temporary appointment of 23 provincial prosecutors two weeks ago.

Merlo insisted that they were selected from 70 and that "none of them had disabilities or penalties" and pointed out that they will hold this position until the end of the contest. (RVD)

Next week begins evaluation

° The chairman of the Justice Council, Marcelo Merlo, also announced yesterday that next week will begin an badessment of the overall of the judicial system. "We will badess without fear, starting with the National Court, then all the courts, the provincial courts, all the prosecutors and, of course, all those who have held important positions in the administration of justice", was -he declares.

He claimed that he would seek international badistance for this process. The president of the Supervisory Commission, María José Carrión, badured that all this would bring peace to the citizens.