MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed two justices of the Court of Appeals (CA) to two vacancies in the Supreme Court.
The two appointees were justices Mario Lopez and Edgardo Delos Santos. They will replace
Associate Justice Francis Jardeleza and Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who retired on Sept. 26 and Oct. 26 respectively.
Lopez, who is from La Union, took up his law degree at the San Beda University before taking up master of laws at the University of Santo Tomas.
Lopez was a former prosecutor of the Tanodbayan (Office of the Ombudsman) in 1985. He also served as executive judge of Batangas City in 1997 before his appointment to the Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, Delos Santos is a Cebu-based appellate court justice who earned his bachelor of laws degree from the University of San Carlos in Cebu.
Prior to his SC appointment, Delos Santos served as a municipal trial court judge in Dumaguete and later became regional trial court judge in Bacolod before his appointment to the appellate court.
Lopez and Delos Santos were the seventh and eighth appointee of President Duterte to the high court giving him a clear majority on pending crucial cases involving the administration./PN
![“Maniwala kayo kay Inday? I-jamming ka niyan nang husto,” Duterte said. “Saan ka nakakita, tatay, dalawang anak magtakbo [sa Senado]... Wag kayong kumagat kay Inday.”](https://www.panaynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/dutertes-1-218x150.jpg "Duterte: ‘Huwag kayong kumagat kay Inday Sara’; Ex-Prez Digong denies plan to run for senator")
