The postponement of the PP and PSOE meeting with Reynders makes the CGPJ agreement difficult and distances its mediation. The delay in extremis and sine die reflects that the positions of both parties are still too far apart to consider an agreement.

The conversations between PSOE and PP with the European intermediary began in Brussels on January 31. The PSOE demands to renew the Council in accordance with the current law - with the last word for the Cortes. The PP, that at the same time the law be modified so that the judges directly elect their eight representatives of the body.