Women win a majority on Honduran Supreme Court of Justice

For the first time, women will be a majority in the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) of Honduras, following an election that Foreign Minister Enrique Reina already described as historic.

“In the Government of the first woman President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, the CSJ is historically elected with a female majority. We hope this is the prelude to a new stage for the justice system that the Honduran people yearn for, with a judiciary that builds the rule of law,” Reina posted on his Twitter account.

The Foreign Minister reacted this way to the news that the National Congress elected, on the night of this February 16, by a qualified majority, the new 15 members of the CSJ for the period 2023-2030.

Eight of the 15 new magistrates are women, three more than in the 2016-2023 term.

The requirements to be elected to the highest jurisdictional body of the country include: being Honduran by birth, being a citizen in the exercise of their rights, being older than 35 years old, being duly registered lawyer, and having practiced the profession for ten years or been the head of a jurisdictional body for five years.

President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya highlighted that the new Supreme Court of Justice has a “gender vision”.

With information from Sputnik

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