After the inauguration of the new Supreme Court of Justice for the period 2019 – 2024 and the election of Oscar Cruz as president of the Judicial systemFinally, the plenary session of magistrates has integrated with the new leaders of the country’s justice, the 3 chambers that make up the Court and that have in their hands the administration of said state entity.
As the authorities have made official, the Chambers, which since 2019 have not been able to be fully integrated due to the absence of regular magistrates, are as follows:
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#NOW: the President @ShirleyRiveraGt and members of the Board of Directors of Congress, proceed to swear in the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Judge Oscar Ruperto Cruz Oliva.
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Amparos and pretrial
- José Luis de Jesús Samayoa Palacios – President
- Elvia Ester Velásquez Sagastume – Member
- Evert Obdulio Barrientos Padilla – Member
- Ronald Manuel Colindres Roca – Member
Civil
- Manuel Reginaldo Duarte Barrera – President
- Claudia Lucrecia Paredes Castañeda – Member
- Héctor Ricardo Echeverría Méndez – Member
- Carlos Humberto Rivera Carrillo – Member
Penal
- Gustavo Adolfo Morales Duarte – President
- René Guillermo Girón Palacios – Member
- Jorge Eduardo Tucux Coyoy – Member
- Benicia Contreras Calderón – Member
Once the chambers are formed, it is expected that they will continue with the work that the outgoing court left pending, since many processes, both jurisdictional and administrative, had been left pending after failing to achieve continuous integration of them.
Furthermore, it is expected that after Cruz is sworn in by Congress, he will take office as president of the CSJ in the next few hours.
