in an official letter dated October 30, 2002, the President of the SCJ Plenum notified Mrs. Chocrón of her appointment and, in this regard, summoned her “[b]ecause she had been appointed by the Judicial Commission” as a temporary judge. The official letter indicated that Mrs. Chocrón was notified “for reasons of urgency, so that, if she accepted the post, [she was requested] to acknowledge receipt and appear before the President of the corresponding Criminal Judicial Circuit to be sworn in.” The President of the SCJ Plenum stated that “the conclusion of the publication process was pending in order to find out if any objections would be raised to the appointment [of Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón].”98 Neither the decision appointing Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón as a temporary judge nor the official letter notifying her of this appointment cited any normative provision regulating the conditions or the time frame for her appointment to take effect. 79. On November 5, 2002, Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón sent a letter to the President and the other justices of the SCJ “indicat[ing her] acceptance of [the said] post.”99 Thus, the swearing in of Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón as a temporary judge before the President of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Caracas Metropolitan Area is recorded in minutes dated November 11, 2002.100 80. On November 25, 2002, the Judiciary’s Executive Directorate “inform[ed] the public” of the “list of candidates,” including Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón, for a series of judicial posts in the Caracas Metropolitan Area. This publication established that “the public [was] invited to submit objections to and/or complaints about any of [those] preselected [on the list] to the Judiciary’s Executive Directorate within eight days of the date of [the] publication […] in an original letter, that included name and surname, identity number, signature, and occupation.”101 In this way, the public had until December 3, 2002, to submit any possible objection to and/or complaint about any of the candidates. The case file does not reveal that any objection to and/or complaint about Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón’s candidacy was made within the said time frame. 2.3. Removal of Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón and remedies filed against this decision 81. On February 3, 2003, three months after Mrs. Chocrón Chocrón had been appointed, the Judicial Commission met and, among other matters, decided to annul the appointment of the alleged victim as a temporary judge “because of […] comments made to [the Supreme Court of Justice].”102 The Judicial Commission stated the following: “Additional Points:” Consideration of the comments presented by Justices concerning the appointment of Mercedes Chocrón Chocrón to the post of Judge of the Criminal Court of First Instance of the Caracas Metropolitan Area Judicial Circuit. Those present stated that the appointment as temporary judge was conditional on no objections being and file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 24, folios 454 to 456), and letter from Mercedes Chocrón to the President and Justices of the Supreme Court of Justice dated November 5, 2002 (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 26, folio 461). 98 Official letter No. TPE-02-1901 from the President of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Justice dated October 30, 2002 (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 25, folio 459). 99 Letter addressed by Mercedes Chocrón to the President and other Justices of the Supreme Court of Justice, supra note 97, folio 461. 100 Minutes No. 008-02 of November 11, 2002 (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 27, folio 463). 101 List of candidates published by the Judiciary’s Executive Directorate on November 25, 2002 (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 28, folio 465). 102 Minutes of the meeting of the Judicial Commission of the Supreme Court of Justice of February 3, 2003 (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 30, folio 469 and 470). 26