Next Wednesday, September 21, the judges’ governing body will meet again to continue negotiations. It has been pledged, yes, that the candidates will be Supreme Court magistrates and that the nominations will be reached by a “great majority”.
The General Council for the Judiciary follow this friday without agreeing on the renewal of the Constitutional Court, after meeting in the morning. Thus, next Wednesday, the 21st, the judges’ governing body will meet again to continue negotiations; committed, yes, to the candidates magistrates of the Most High since the appointments are reached by a “great majority”.
In this context, the first meeting between the progressive and conservative blocs of the CGPJ has ended as expected: without names, albeit with the call for a new meeting, for Wednesday. That day, the progressive members will bring a list of nine candidates, including Pablo Lucas, the judge charged with overseeing the actions of the CNI; María Luisa Segoviano, the first woman to chair a chamber of the Supreme Court; and his military counterpart, Jacobo López Barja de Quiroga.
The Conservatives are not currently considering drafting a candidate list as other variables must be taken into account beforehand, such as the impact that the election of a magistrate who is currently part of a Chamber with a lack of staff would have, such as This is the case of the Supreme Court. It is an extreme that they have not agreed with the progressives.
All in all, the conservative bloc has asked for more time, as today, according to CGPJ sources, they do not have a Supreme Court magistrate willing to run for the Constitutional Court, unlike the progressives, who, “as a sign of maximum transparency in the negotiation process”, and since they have magistrates who in recent days have expressed their desire to apply for the position in the TC, they commit their list of candidates, with their trajectory, “to make progress in the work”.
three point match
Thus, three days after the expiry of the legal deadline for the appointment of two constitutional judges, the interlocutors from the progressive and conservative sectors reached an agreement on three points: ensuring that the broadest agreement and support of the majority of magistratesthat the selection of candidates is carried out after a in-depth examination of their resumesand let this be judges of the Supreme Court. With this minimal agreement, the two groups, represented by Álvaro Cuesta, Roser Bach and Rafael Mozo, from the progressive bloc, and José Antonio Ballesteros and Carmen Llombart, from the conservative, will continue to try to bring their positions closer next week.
At the same time, the government of Spain, which must also appoint two other magistrates, has already made it clear that it will wait for the members of the CGPJ to “do their job” so that their names will not be revealed in the coming days. The presidency minister, Félix Bolaños, is confident that the CGPJ will appoint the two magistrates because “he cannot imagine” that the judges’ governing body will break the law.
For its part, the Spanish Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has said that she is confident that “everyone” of the members of the CGPJ will meet the legal mandate to appoint two magistrates to the TC, but she has not wanted “progress scenarios” on how long Spain’s government will wait to appoint their own government.
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/es_ES/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));
Source: EITB
I’m Wayne Wickman, a professional journalist and author for Today Times Live. My specialty is covering global news and current events, offering readers a unique perspective on the world’s most pressing issues. I’m passionate about storytelling and helping people stay informed on the goings-on of our planet.
