 It is understood by appointing judges, their appointment to judicial office for the first time, becoming part of the judicial career, in which case it is called "admission to the judicial career", or the appointment of the judge who, belonging and to that race happens to occupy, by any of the mechanisms regulated by the Law on Judicial Service, in its implementing regulations and the National Judicial College, a different function he occupied, the This is called "provision of judicial office".The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the National Council of the Magistracy, in accordance with Article 179 of the Constitution of the Republic and the Organic Law of the National Council of the Magistracy.When choosing the judges of the Supreme Court, the National Council of the Magistracy have which of them should occupy the presidency, and designate a first and second substitute to replace the President in case of absence or disability.