For example, the conservative bloc of the General Judicial Council is trying to get the interim chairman of the governing body of judges to convene an extraordinary plenary before December 22, when the reform promoted by PSOE and United We Can is expected to be approved.
The conservative bloc of the General Council for the Judiciary (CGPJ) has proposed to the Supreme Court magistrates César Tolosa and Pablo Lucas as Constitutional Court candidatesto get the interim president, Rafael Mozo, to do a Extraordinary plenary session allowing to vote and choose the two names to be designated by the governing body of judges before December 22. That day it is expected that the legal reform promoted by the PSOE and Unidas Podemos that would favor the current candidate of the progressive sector, José Manuel Bandrés, will be approved.
In a letter to Mozo, members of the conservative wing put their candidates on the table after Wednesday’s meeting. They also attached the applicants’ resumes and stressed that “there is no other document to provide”. This move comes after Mozo yesterday refused to convene the extraordinary plenary meeting they had requested.
The interim president of the CGPJ rejected the Conservatives’ initial request, claiming that they had not accompanied their request with the names of at least two candidates for the Guarantee Court; For this reason, the nine members have now revealed the name of their chosen ones.
The intention of this bloc is to vote before adopting the reform promoted by government partners, which can be approved next week both in Congress and in the Senate, because of its explicit processing.
Specifically, PSOE and Unidas Podemos propose moving from a three-fifths majority, which now requires at least 11 votes, to a simple, so that the CGPJ designates its two candidates for the TC. They also suggest that, in the event that the governing body of judges continues to fail in its obligation to send two candidates to the Constitutional Court, their members could be held accountable, even criminally.
In addition, that amendment envisages that instead of each of the 18 Members proposing and voting for two candidates, they will only propose and vote for one candidate. That guarantees that the two candidates with the most votes are those elected by each bloc of the Council, the Progressive and the Conservative. This is, in the case of progressives, Bandrés.
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