Madrid (EFE) unviable” because “it does not guarantee the renewal of the Council”.
It will be the second meeting of the progressive group after the meeting last Friday to analyze the “unsustainable” situation of the Council and in which the possibility of resignations was put on the table, which would be “individual and not collective”.
This option would make it possible to avoid any criminal liability since some members of the conservative group warn that, in the face of a block resignation, the progressive members could incur “a crime of collective abandonment of the service.”
The progressive group is made up of members Rafael Mozo, Pilar Sepúlveda, Álvaro Cuesta, Mar Cabrejas, Roser Bach, Clara Martínez de Careaga, as well as Concepción Sáez -whose resignation by letter has yet to be accepted by the president- plus Enrique Lucas, appointed by the PNV but who usually joins this group, although his adherence to this proposal seems complicated.
Legal sources have explained to EFE that the proposal came from Cuesta, who is linked to Moncloa, who stated that the en bloc resignation of these eight members would be the key to forcing the renewal because it would leave the plenary session without a quorum to be held and, therefore, , inoperative.
But the sources recall that the same would not happen with the Permanent Commission, the body that manages the day-to-day life of the Council and that it would have a quorum to convene.
That is why there are voices among progressives who consider the resignations “unfeasible” because “it does not guarantee at all” that this will force the parties to sit down to renew.
“It would be a more symbolic than operational gesture” that, in addition, would grant “control of the judiciary to the conservatives.”
Because although the conservatives are the majority in the current composition of the Plenary, which dates from the second legislature of Mariano Rajoy, there are progressive members who defend their “exercise of control” and work as a “counterweight” before the conservatives.
Thus, the meeting of the progressives precedes the ordinary plenary session this Thursday, where this issue will come to light, and in which, as far as possible, the progressives will try to bring a common position on the matter that, even, it may not be set tomorrow and be delayed until the same Thursday.