The Supreme Council of Magistrates has three new members. They were elected at the General Assembly of Judges on October 18. The judges are Anatol Turcan, Dumitru Visterniceanu and Tatiana Raducan. Another three candidates didn’t garner the necessary number of votes, IPN reports.
Mihai Macari was elected as a member of the Council for Assessing the Performance of Judges.
Thirteen judges applied for the post of permanent member of the Supreme Council of Magistrates. The voting lasted for about three hours and involved 362 judges. Two substitute members were also to be elected today, but the candidates didn’t poll the necessary number of votes. The voting for all the candidates will be rerun in December, when the General Assembly will be convened again.
The Supreme Council of Magistrates has 12 members. Three of them are chosen by Parliament from among titular professors. Another three are named by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, the minister of justice and the prosecutor general. The other six are elected at the General Assembly of Judges by secret vote.
