Prosecutor already has in his hands the investigation against the ‘eternal magistrates’ of the Superior Council of the Judiciary

Justices Alonso Sanabria and Julia Emma Garzón were singled out by the Supreme Court of Justice to maintain their positions despite the fact that their constitutional term expired in 2016. The ‘eternal magistrates’ will be investigated by the prosecutor 7 delegated to the Court and attached to the CTI, Daniel Ricardo Hernández Martínez.

The Prosecutor’s Office accepted the copies certified by the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to investigate the controversial magistrates who They are part of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Superior Council of the Judiciary.

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The Court refused to comply with an order of a judgment of guardianship of the Disciplinary Chamber, stating that Garzón and Sanabria ceased to be magistrates for four yearsTherefore, he considered that it was important to find out why they had continued to hold office despite the fact that their 8-year constitutional period ended in 2016.

Your decision to stay in office has not been deliberate, Well, in 2016, when her terms were about to expire, the then legal secretary of the presidency, Cristina Pardo, He said they had to stay on duty until they had replacements. Mauricio Lizcano, who was president of Congress, also supported that decision after these magistrates asked the presidency how to proceed. It was expected that the relays would arrive soon, but it did not happen.

The magistrates never left, as did one of their colleagues, María Lourdes Hernández, who left office as soon as her time was up. Now the complaints go towards the responsibility that Sanabria and Garzón have for receiving a salary of almost 38 million pesos, in addition to their security scheme and the auxiliary magistrates of each one and the decisions that have been made in their position, as appointments to positions within the court while they were presidents after their eight-year constitutional term.

In a ruling, the Constitutional Court said that a magistrate’s term of more than the 8 years that the law says is unconstitutional, and assured that it cannot be extended. After that ruling, Garzón and Sanabria sent a letter to Congress in which they left their positions at their disposal, but the Legislature has not yet accepted their resignations..

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For his part, Attorney General Francisco Barbosa assured that “Observes the great complexity of the matter and considers it necessary to surround the process carried out in the Attorney General’s Office with the greatest guarantees, so that the principles of transparency, speed and efficiency, objectivity, equity, impartiality in the administration of justice and the decisions that correspond in law are made “.

That is why he appointed the prosecutor Daniel Ricardo Hernández to study what was sent by the Supreme Court and make a decision on the process of the already known “eternal magistrates.”