Nominating Board for the Election of Magistrates to the Supreme Court of Justice
The Nominating Board for the Election of Magistrates to the Supreme Court of Justice was created with the aim of determining a roster composed of at least 45 candidates who meet the requirements and cannot be disqualified, based on the criteria established in the Constitution of the Republic and the Law. After the board presents these candidates, the National Congress elects 15 judges to be members of the Supreme Court of Justice. The Board is composed by a representative of the Supreme Court of Justice, who will preside over it; a representative of the Honduran Bar Association; the National Commissioner for Human Rights; a representative of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP); a representative of the Cloisters of Professors of the Faculties or Schools of Legal Sciences; a representative of civil society organizations; and a representative of the Confederation of Workers. Each of the above organizations will have the right to nominate a substitute for their representative, who will act only in case of the representative's absence, incapacity or absolute inability. The election of magistrates for the Supreme Court of Justice is done every seven years. Since its inception in 2001, the Nominating Board has been active on three occasions for the elections of 2002, 2009, and 2016.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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