With the integration of the new lawyers: Eunisis Vásquez Acosta, María del Carmen Santana de Cabrera, José Alejandro Vargas and Manuel Ulises Bonelly Vega, who will take the oath this coming Tuesday, the Constitutional Court (TC) registration will remain with 10 men and only three women.
Vásquez Acosta and Santana de Cabrera will join Alba Luisa Beard Marcos as the female representation of TC.
The four legal figures, elected last Friday by the National Council of Magistracy (CNM), will replace Wilson Ramírez, Katia Miguelina Jiménez, Hermógenes Acosta de los Santos and Ana Isabel Bonilla, who ended their terms in December last year.
The lawyers will join nine other members of the TC to complete the group of 13 established by Law no. 137-11 in Chapter II, Article 10.
Characteristics
Once the oath has been taken, the judges will join the task of guaranteeing the supremacy of the Constitution, the defense of the constitutional order and the protection of fundamental rights.
The TC, which is the supreme body for the interpretation and control of constitutionality and autonomous from the public authorities and other state bodies, takes decisions on constitutional offenses against laws, decrees, regulations, resolutions and ordinances, for example the President of the Republic, a third party of the members of the Senate or of the Chamber of Deputies and of any person with a legitimate and legally protected interest.
Likewise, the judges of the Constitutional Court must carry out the preventive control of international treaties before their ratification by the legislature and of conflicts of competence between public authorities, at the request of one of their holders.