The National Council of the Magistracy

Abstract

The article is related to an autonomous constitutional body responsible for the selection, appointment, ratification and dismissal of the judges and prosecutors. Strictly speaking, it exercises a political and administrative function. The first one is understood because, by the rule of the Constitution, it exercises power of institutionalized determination and directs its decisions in accordance with ideological and juridical principles and values provided in said text. The second one is meant to expose a unilateral declaration of will made in the name and representation of the State that produces individual legal effects, immediately.