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The lawyer from the Universidad Javeriana will be part of the closing body of the Colombian justice system. He arrives to take the post of Carlos Bernal, who resigned in July of this year for personal reasons. With his election, the high court will be composed of four women and five men.
The Constitutional Court has just completed its list of magistrates, following the election of lawyer Paola Andrea Meneses in Congress this Thursday. The new gown, who was termed by President Iván Duque, comes to replace Carlos Bernal, who last July submitted his early resignation to the high court arguing personal reasons and because he had an offer to continue his academic career at Ohio University (United States United). “I am convinced that I will act at the height of this position, without a doubt, the most important that has accompanied my career,” said the elected magistrate this Thursday in the Senate.
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In the speech she gave, after being sworn in as magistrate in front of the president of the Senate, Arturo Char, Meneses thanked President Iván Duque, who finished her, and stressed that in her work the following will prevail: “my condition as a vigorous, ethical, collaborative and hard-working woman ”. In addition, she said she was convinced that: “with my colleagues in the Court, to whom I already extend my arms and my commitment for the sake of collective and team work for the country, we will work tirelessly for the objectives and goals that we have traced the fundamental norm ”.
Paola Andrea Meneses is a lawyer from the Javeriana University, with studies and experience in public and corporate law. He is a specialist in Constitutional Law and Political Sciences at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid. According to President Iván Duque, who served her together with Fernando Grillo and José María del Castillo, the new magistrate of the Constitutional Court has “broad professional recognition and leadership skills.”
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Since the beginning of 2020, the lawyer worked as a prosecutor in the Organized Crime Unit of the investigating body, under the orders of the attorney general Francisco Barbosa. In addition, he was Superintendent of Family Allowance from November 2018 to February of this year. Before that, Paola Andrea Meneses was secretary general of the National Federation of Departments, between August 2015 and February 2018. “I am convinced that I will act at the height of this position, without a doubt, the most important that has accompanied my career” Meneses added in his speech in the Senate.
Within her duties as superintendent of Family Allowance, Paola Andrea Meneses inaugurated a children’s theme park in Santa Marta, built by the Magdalena Family Compensation Fund. “Without a doubt it is a fund committed to the social and this type of works are the evidence that employees work, particularly in categories A and B, who earn between two and three minimum wages,” he said at that time.
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Likewise, in that office Paola Andrea Meneses announced the allocation of more than 30 thousand housing subsidies to the same number of families, for a value of $ 600,209 million in the first six months of 2019. “Housing subsidies constitute an important contribution that they make the family compensation funds so that members and their families can make their dream of having their own house or apartment come true and improve their quality of life, ”he said in a press release from the Presidency.
Prior to this election process, high court sources consulted by The viewer and legal experts who constantly interact in such offices, warned that, although Duque’s trustees have the requirements that the Constitution requires, none would have the necessary profile to wear the toga. “The most important merit that (Paola Andrea Meneses) has is having been a classmate of the president, but she lacks hair to be a judge of the Court,” explained a source to this newspaper.
