Double Speech: President of the Court sends word that judges will not be reinstated

*While one of the judges participating in the hunger strike was hospitalized yesterday due to tachycardia attack and hypertension after six days of demonstrating , the President  of the Supreme Court makes double speeches on the media to confuse public opinion, on the one hand saying two days ago that "the judges were never dismissed and that they abandoned their posts", on the other, this today saying that they are not going back since the decision is already taken by a majority of  votes.

voselsoberano.com | Sunday May 23 2010 1:43

Dirario Tiempo.

 

  TEGUCIGALPA .- The President of the Supreme Court of injustice, Jorge Rivera Avilez , said yesterday that it will NOT reverse the dismissal of three judges, one magistrate, and a public defender because the decision was taken by a majority vote of the judges, reported spokesman Danilo Izaguirre.


Reporters packed the Judiciary because they wanted to know the version of Rivera Avilez about remarks by President Porfirio Lobo Sosa in the sense that he had promised not to dismiss the judges.


However, with a 10-5 vote the judges ruled the dismissal of judges Ramón Enrique Barrios, Luis Alonso Chévez de la Rocha, Guillermo Lopez Lone, and Judge Tirza del Carmen Flores Lanza.


Izaguirre, after talking to Rivera Avilez told reporters that what  Lobo Sosa asked of  his boss was to postpone the decision to separate judges.


"The court's president promised he would make the necessary steps  to request it in court, but there he was rejected  and told  that this is a decision that is already taken," he said. He said the 10 judges who voted in favor of the dismissal say that there will be no going back.


For his part, one of the judges who are in the hunger strike, Guillermo Lopez Lone, said the position of judges is intransigent and does not contribute to a climate of dialogue and reconciliation.


"That position puts us in a situation where the strike could be taken further and that could bring the incorporation of other organizations," he said.


Judges who voted for the dismissal:
1-Rosalinda Cruz Sequeira.
2-José Francisco Ruiz Gaekel.
3-José Antonio Gutiérrez Navas
4-Raúl Antonio Henríquez Interiano.
5-Jorge Reyes Díaz.
6-Edith María López Rivera.
7-Víctor Manuel Martínez Sevilla.
8-Rosa de Lourdes Paz Haslam.
9-José Tomás Arita Valle.
10-Jorge Rivera Avilez.

  Judges who voted against the dismissal:
1-Jacobo Cálix Hernández.
2-Carlos David Cálix Vallecillo.
3-Marco Vinicio Zúniga Medrano
4-Oscar Fernando Chinchilla Venegas. 5- Gustavo Enrique Bustillo Palma. 

Source: Diario TIEMPO, http://voselsoberano.com/v1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5736%3Apresidente-de-la-corte-manda-decir-que-no-restituiran-a-jueces&catid=1%3Anoticias-generales&Itemid=1