Madrid, Feb 7 (EFE) that suggests some modification to the norm that the progressive majority does not accept.
The first major debate in depth with the new composition of the court will foreseeably have to wait until Wednesday, since the intention of the presidency is to address the abstentions and challenges this Tuesday with the intention of preventing the plenary session from running out of the minimum of eight magistrates. and then enter the fund from Wednesday, which can also be delayed.
Thus, the plenary session will deal with the abstentions and challenges that affect four magistrates who participated in one way or another in the processing of that norm: Candido Conde-Pumpido, Juan Carlos Campo, Inmaculada Montalbán and Concepción Espejel.
Espejel and Montalbán were members of the CGPJ that wrote a report on the law; Conde-Pumpido was attorney general when the Fiscal Council issued its report and Campo was Secretary of State for Justice, which was the Ministry that drafted the law.
Only Espejel has communicated his abstention
But to date only Espejel has communicated his abstention and although neither Montalbán nor Campo nor Conde-Pumpido have planned to do so because it could cause a lack of “quorum” to resolve, Espejel’s decision may have consequences, especially for Montalbán for being exactly in the same position.
In addition to the abstentions, there are four challenges formulated by five former PP deputies of the 71 who appealed, although legal sources point to EFE that they have little experience since only the group of appellants can challenge and has not done so.
Once these issues have been resolved, the Plenary will start with the debate on the presentation by the conservative Enrique Arnaldo, who endorses the 2010 law and only sees one issue as unconstitutional, the article that regulates the information that women previously receive considering that it is not properly informed.
It also proposes to delimit the interpretation of two concepts: that the conscientious objection is not only to the health workers involved in the intervention but also to those who participated before and the reference to social health to justify the eugenic abortion.
The progressive majority, from seven to four in plenary, intends to fully endorse the Abortion Law promoted in 2010 under the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero without accepting limitations or conditions on the right to abortion, sources report.
If this happens, two scenarios open up: that Arnaldo assumes the thesis of the majority or resigns from the paper so that it is another magistrate who drafts it according to the majority feeling and it is thus approved in the next plenary session.
