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Chief Justice of the SCJ complains of Budget allotment

He says that they need double the assignment contemplated for 2015

SANTO DOMINGO. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) and the chairman of the Council of the Judicial Power (CPJ), Mariano German Mejia, warned that with a budgetary assignment of RD $5.222 billion for 2015 they cannot supply the basic necessities of this power of the state.

"They cannot demand quality Justice from me under these economic conditions, we have to be clear about that, in order that we don't fool ourselves," he said.

The magistrate said that he is a man who speaks clearly and it is not possible to administer the Justice Power under these conditions.

German Mejia argued that they need double the current budget in order to comply with the basic necessities.

He suggested that the Judicial Power has not been able to appoint half of the Justices of the Peace that they need at the national level, due to the lack of resources.

The magistrate said that they need to appoint more judges, but in order to do this they require more resources. He commented that to the extent in which they can accept more candidates for judges in the National School of the Justice System and they graduate, they can have fewer substitutes and "as a result we will have more control, because it is the lack of control, fundamentally, in the substitutes."

He deplored the precariousness in which the Judicial Power carries out its work at the present time with the lack of resources to appoint personnel, remodel the tribunals and acquire the logistics.

He said that he doesn't have anything to ask for because the functions are carried out with dignity and each person knows what to do.

He assured the reporters that he will continue with the same will power, the same effort and the same desire, although he doesn't have the budget, because he will fight on with or without resources.

"Now it will be difficult and those that are demanding more of me should not complain," he said as he was interviewed at the end of the swearing in ceremony of 41 new Justices of the Peace, who graduated from the National School of the Judiciary in the auditorium of the SCJ.