The conservative and progressive judges of the General Council of the Judiciary have not even started negotiations on the appointment of their two magistrates, and it seems that the Spanish government is in no rush to appoint its own magistrates either.
The General Council for the Judiciary (CGPJ) this Tuesday September 13 has expired, the legal term for renew the Constitutional Court (TC), so that now an uncertain panorama opens up about whether (and when) the negotiations that have not even started between the conservative and progressive blocs of the corps of judges will culminate and what position the Spanish government will take after the split.
Without a possible agreement in time, the plenary session of the CGPJ limited itself to determining the rules for the election of the two magistrates who alternately agree. Conservatives and progressives have appointed the representatives who will meet in the coming days to agree on the names of the two magistrates. It is up to the Spanish government to name two more names, but their names are still a long way off.
The conservative bloc has appointed José Antonio Ballesteros and Carmen Llombart (one of the most critical of the Spanish government) as interlocutors to try to bring the views closer to the progressives, who will be represented by Álvaro Cuesta, Rafael Mozo and Roser Bach, as reported to the EFE agency’s legal sources.
Yet there is no date for a first meeting between the parties and there is no glimpse of what the calendar will be to follow, as the sources consulted emphasize that the times will be set by the Council itself, making it clear that the date is an issue for the government, explain the sources.
It remains to be seen what the response of the college will be. The minister of the presidency, Félix Bolaños, already said that the members had “a legal term” established by law, “they work” and that from the government all that came out is that “they do their work quietly, without pressure and ultimately the appointment of two magistrates of the TC”. Sources close to the government specify that: Moncloa has no plans at the time of naming to his two magistrates and that it will wait and see how the negotiations in the CGPJ develop.
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Source: EITB
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