Luanda, ANGOLA, January 19 - The National Assembly (AN) on Friday approved the election of jurist Josefa António dos Santos Neto to the position of counseling judge of the Constitutional Court.,

 

Proposed by the UNITA parliamentary group, Josefa António dos Santos Neto replaces Alberto Wuaca, elected by the Chamber in plenary on November 17, 2017, but did not take office because he did not meet the requirement of 15 years of law degree required by law.

The Constitutional Court is composed of 11 counseling judges, four of whom are appointed by the President of the Republic including the president of the court, four elected by the Parliament, by a two-thirds majority of the deputies in office, including the vice-president of the two judges elected by the Superior Council of the Judiciary and one selected by public curricular competition.

TC judges are appointed for a non-renewable seven-year term.

The Parliament also granted jurists Carlos Alberto Ferreira Pinto and Antónia Flor Bela Rocha to the positions of ombudsman and deputy, respectively, replacing Paulo Tjipilica and Maria da Conceição Sango.

 

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