The Constitutional Chamber strikes again

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice in El Salvador continues to demonstrate its independence as it just declared unconstitutional the Legislative Assembly's 2012 selection of Salomón Padilla as president of the Supreme Court.

Padilla had been chosen president as part of the political solution to the 2012 crisis when El Salvador had two courts claiming to be supreme. However, the Constitutional Chamber today ruled that Padilla should not have been elected because of his previous FMLN political affiliation.

I imagine this is going to cause some complications because some of what the FMLN agreed to in August 2012 was with the knowledge that Padilla would be the CSJ's president. Now the Constitutional Chamber has ruled that that cannot be the case.

Padilla had said that he would accept the Court's ruling prior to it being known. We'll see what happens now.