The persons or institutions mentioned in this provision shall have eight days, counted from the publication in the Official Gazette [Registro Oficial] of these reforms to the Constitution, in which to submit a list of nominees. All candidates thus nominated must meet the requirements set out in Article 128, reformed, of the Constitution. A Qualifying Committee shall be created, which shall be composed of three parliamentarians appointed by the Speaker of the National Congress and three representatives of civil society selected by the nominating entities, who shall designate a seventh member, who shall not be a parliamentarian, as chair of the Committee. The Committee shall qualify those nominees who meet the requirements set out in Article 128, reformed, of the Constitution, and who also satisfy the conditions of probity, suitability, experience, and capacity. To that end, after it receives the list of candidates, the Committee shall arrange for its publication on a single occasion, so as to enable natural and legal persons to present, with documentation and in a confidential manner, objections to any of the qualified candidates. When 10 days following the date of the aforementioned publication have elapsed, the Committee shall submit its report for the consideration of the National Congress, which shall designate the 31 justices of the Supreme Court of Justice in the following manner: a) Twenty-four from the candidates put forward by the 12 nominating bodies and qualified by the Committee; and, b) Seven from the candidates proposed by any other civil society organization or person, who have been qualified by the Committee according to the same criteria set for the other candidates. Should any other of the nominating entities or persons failed to submit candidacies within the time limit established in this transitory provision, then the National Congress shall designate the justices, selecting them from the rest of the nominees. The Justices thus appointed shall take office before the Speaker of the National Congress. Within three days after publication of these reforms in the Official Gazette, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal shall summon the nominating bodies composed of the National Bar Association of Ecuador; the human rights associations; the deans of the university law schools and the members of the National Council of Universities and Polytechnic Colleges (CONUEP); National Association of Newspaper Directors, the Ecuadorian Association of Television Networks, and the Ecuadorian Broadcasting Association; The judges of the Superior Courts of Justice, District Tax Courts and Administrative Tribunals, and the National Federation of Judicial Employees and Officials; the general unions, campesino organizations, and teachers and educators organized under the UNE and FENAPUPE; the indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples’ organizations of Ecuador; the Consortium of Provincial Councils of Ecuador and the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador; and the Chambers of Production and Small Industry, which shall prepare the lists of nominees for appointment as justices of the Supreme Court of Justice. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal shall organize, direct and guarantee said nomination process, for which purpose it shall adopt the necessary provisions and transmit the list of nominees to the National Congress. 8. A qualifying committee was created that was composed of three parliamentarians appointed by the Speaker of the Congress and of three representatives of civil society; these three members, in turn, designated a seventh member, who was not a parliamentarian, as chair of the Committee. Said Committee identified the candidates who fulfilled the requirements mentioned in Article 128 of the Constitution then in force, after which the roll of qualified 3

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