The ordinary General Assembly of Judges will take place on March 26, as the Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM) decided on January 19, IPN reports.

Acting president of the SCM Luiza Gafton said a number of attempts to convoke the General Assembly of Judges in an ordinary meeting and also in an extraordinary meeting were made last year, but these failed owing to the pandemic.

The regulations provide that the General Assembly of Judges is announced at least 60 days beforehand. In the March 26 meeting, the judges are to elect a standing member of the SCM from among judges and a substitute member and also a number of members of the constituent boards. There will be presented the progress reports for 2020 of the SCM and the Supreme Court of Justice.

In 2019, after the Superior Council of Magistracy rejected the judges’ request to call the General Assembly, a group of judges convoked the extraordinary sitting in September. Then the participants decided to dismiss the six judges delegated to the Superior Council of Magistracy. In several days, the Council filed a challenge, asking to annul that decision. A new General Assembly of Judges, where to choose a new composition of the SCM from among judges, was set for October 25, but this didn’t have a quorum. In the middle of this January, the SCM scheduled the General Assembly of Judges for March 13, but this was put off owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting set for October 23 also didn’t take place.