The twenty new members must choose between Pilar Teso and Pablo Lucas, both Supreme Court justices and defined as moderate progressives, to lead the governing body of the judges. The first vote of this second day (the eighth in total) ended with a tie of 10 votes.
The plenary session of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) will resume at 12:00, to try to elect the president of the governing body of the judges and the Supreme Court. And the first vote this morning (the eighth in total) ended this morning in a tie of 10 votes between jurors Pablo Lucas and Pilar Teso.
After Tuesday’s seven failed votes, the twenty members of the new General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) will have to choose between Supreme Court judges Pilar Teso and Pablo Lucas – both defined as moderate progressives – on this second day.
The election of the new president is the first vote of the body’s 20 new members since they came to power last Thursday after a nearly six-year mandate expired.
Ten members were elected by the PSOE and ten by the PP, so it was necessary that at least two would move from their ‘blocs’.
Pillar Teso She is a moderate progressive who was already a candidate in 2013 Paul Lukeon its part, is a moderately progressive proposal from the conservative sector, responsible for judicial control over the CNI.
The law stipulates that the body must elect its president within three or seven days of the plenary session in which the names of the candidates were proposed, which was held on Thursday, July 25.
Source: EITB
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