{"id":484571,"date":"2025-09-26T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/raquel-pena-heads-cnm-meeting-scj-judges-will-be-evaluated-on-october-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:16:02","slug":"raquel-pena-heads-cnm-meeting-scj-judges-will-be-evaluated-on-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/raquel-pena-heads-cnm-meeting-scj-judges-will-be-evaluated-on-october-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Raquel Pe\u00f1a heads CNM meeting; SCJ judges will be evaluated on October 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong> \u2013 The Vice President of the <strong>Republic, Raquel Pe\u00f1a,<\/strong> led a virtual meeting of the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) this Friday, in which it was approved to convene for next <strong>Thursday, October 2,<\/strong> starting at 5:00 in the afternoon, the performance evaluation of three judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ).\n\nThe cited magistrates are <strong>Pilar Jim\u00e9nez Ortiz, Manuel Alexis Read Ortiz, and Mois\u00e9s Ferrer Landr\u00f3n<\/strong>, who have served seven years in their positions, in accordance with Article 181 of the Constitution. The interviews will be held at the <strong>National Palace<\/strong> and will be public.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/vicepresidenta-raquel-pena-dicta\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"533733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a gives a conference in La Altagracia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe legal consultant of the Executive Branch, doctor <strong>Antoliano Peralta Romero<\/strong>, offered the details after the meeting concluded.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Regulations and Transparency<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe call is framed within the recent modification to the Regulation for the evaluation of the performance of the SCJ judges, which empowers the CNM to decide in each case whether the interviews will be public or private. However, the regulations establish that the evaluation of the president of the Supreme Court must always be public.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>No objections presented<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deadline to file objections against the magistrates to be evaluated expired on September 23. According to the CNM Secretariat, <strong>no objections were registered<\/strong> on this occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Case of Magistrate Fern\u00e1ndez G\u00f3mez<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nAlthough he was also due for evaluation, judge <strong>Blas Rafael Fern\u00e1ndez G\u00f3mez<\/strong> will not be part of the process after formally informing the CNM that he will not opt for a new term in the high court, in accordance with article 5 of Regulation no. 2-25.\n\nWith this call, the National Council of the Magistracy reaffirms its commitment to transparency and the institutional strengthening of Dominican justice.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. \u2013 The Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Pe\u00f1a, led a virtual meeting of the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) this Friday, in which it was approved to convene for next Thursday, October 2, starting at 5:00 in the afternoon, the performance evaluation of three judges of the Supreme Court of Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[1830],"class_list":["post-484571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-raquel-pena"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-223F","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-26-at-7.11.40-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-26-at-7.11.40-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}