Madrid (EFE).- The progressive sector of the CGPJ will meet next Tuesday to assess the possibility of resigning en bloc and thus force the renewal of the governing body of judges, which has been in office since December 2018.
Legal sources have informed EFE that the meeting of the group was called on Tuesday afternoon to “assess the very serious situation of the Council” after almost four and a half years in office “and the possibility of a resignation in particular.”
Although it seemed that the resignation that Concepción Sáez, also from the progressive block, communicated a few days ago to the president of the CGPJ, Rafael Mozo, due to the “unsustainable” situation of the Judiciary was not going to cause more resignations, the vocal Álvaro Cuesta yesterday demanded a meeting of his group to assess the possibility that at least eight members also leave the Council.
The reason is that, according to article 600.4 of the organic law of the judiciary, “for the valid constitution” of the plenary session of the CGPJ it is necessary, “at least, the presence of ten members and the president”, so that if eight , currently the necessary majority would not be achieved.
The Council currently has 18 members, after the dismissal of its former president, Carlos Lesmes, one death and one retirement, and taking into account that Sáez’s resignation must still be accepted by the current president, Rafael Mozo.
In the event that Mozo accepts it, the progressive block would be made up of six members, who are usually joined in their votes by the member Enrique Lucas, proposed in his day by the PNV.
Although some progressive members consulted by EFE have assured that for the moment they are not considering resigning, Álvaro Cuesta has promoted a meeting in the bloc to assess the possibility of joint resignation and thus force the renewal of the CGPJ.
Sánchez does not value a resignation en bloc and accuses the PP of intervening in the CGPJ
In Brussels, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, did not want to assess a possible resignation en bloc in the General Council of the Judiciary to force its renewal, but he has once again accused the PP of having intervened and kidnapping the Constitution with the in order to make it clear that the “natural order of things is for conservatism to monopolize” the governing body of judges.
In an appearance before the media after the European Council, he has considered this “full-fledged political intervention” of the PP “unacceptable” and has asked its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to recover the autonomy of the “right that sends him and marks him the step” and comply with the agreement for the renewal of an institution as important for Spain as the General Council of the Judiciary.
For her part, the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has said in Granada that it is “imperative” that the PP put an end to the situation of “kidnapping” to which, in her opinion, it has submitted to the General Council of the Judiciary by blocking its renewal.
Belarra puts pressure on the PSOE to unblock the CGPJ and renew it
The Minister of Social Rights and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has pressured the PSOE this Friday by assuring that “it has the key to put an imminent end” to the blockade of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and renew it.
He has done so in statements to journalists before participating in an event organized by his department and without expressly citing the reform that the Government withdrew after the misgivings raised in Brussels and that sought to lower the majorities required to elect the governing body of judges. , an initiative that could have left the PP out of the renewal.
Belarra has been “quite concerned” that “the current members of the CGPJ are being held responsible for the renewal of this body. “It is evident that the Popular Party has been in rebellion against the Constitution for more than four years, failing to comply with the mandate to renew the body of judges, but it is also true that it is the Socialist Party that has the key to put an end to to this situation in an imminent way”, asserted the minister.
For this reason, Belarra has considered that the government and the parliamentary groups that support it “have to act” in order to comply with the Constitution and assume “that constitutional responsibility” that all parliamentary groups have.