At the beginning of June – in a historic event, given the impasse in the negotiations between the ruling party and the opposition for the appointment of positions in oversight bodies – the parliamentarians They managed to vote the approval of Judge Álvaro França Nebot to be appointed minister of the Supreme Court of Justice.
At that time the General Assembly voted for the entry of França who took over the position left by Tabaré Sosawho ceased on March 10.
Now, they once again managed to agree and validate that the minister of the Court of Civil Appeals, Edgardo Ettlin assume in the Administrative Litigation Court (TCA) before the dismissal of Selva Klett who ceased his position on April 1.
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The Constitution establishes that ministers must be appointed by two thirds of the General Assembly and after 90 days of the vacancy without political agreement, the minister of the Court of Appeals with longest tenure in office.
In the case of the TCA, the deadline expired on July 1. Ettlin occupied the fourth place on the list of magistrates with longest tenure in office.
Currently it is Minister of Civil Appeals of the 7th Shift. He has written books on cases and is part of the organization of the 200 years of the “Administration of Justice” organized by the Judiciary. Among the cases in which its court intervenes, is the bankruptcy of Conexión Ganadera.
