Mr. Chairman, I would like to add our report deals not only with judges' salaries. We also made recommendations on how to proceed. There is no rule. The Commission was set up precisely because there were no specific rules. One of the recommendations was that during the four years of peace, therefore during the period where under no circumstances would the salaries be changed, research be done to find comparable criteria. The government justified its rejection by saying that they were not good comparisons. This is vital. We only had a few months and we did our best. There was tons of information to deal with. We assessed the situation and decided that it was the best way to proceed.
The members of our commission did not agree on everything, but they did agree from the outset that judges were crucial entities for the wellbeing of society. Judges had not only to be independent, but that independence had to be obvious. We want the cream of the legal world to come to the bench. It is one thing to say that there are a lot of candidates, but that does not mean that they are the best. These facts had to be emphasized.
We began our work with the idea that it was important to find the happy medium, and we gave it our best shot. We understand that it is not perfect and that we will have to continue studying these issues.