Magistrate María Eugenia López Arias was elected as the new president of the Supreme Court (CSJ), replacing former magistrate Luis Ramón Fábrega, who ended his 10-year term on December 31.

 López Arias, who assumed the position of magistrate in December 2019, in the Second Criminal Chamber of the Court, replacing former magistrate Jerónimo Mejía, will hold the presidency of the Court for the next two years.

The vote among the nine magistrates of the Court, which has a majority of five female magistrates, took place hours after the new magistrates María Cristina Chen Stanziola and Miriam Yadira Cheng Rosas took office