• Politics. The CGPJ shows its "absolute" and "resounding" rejection of the statements of Iglesias charging against the judges
  • Justice. The Minister of Justice conveys to the CGPJ that there is a "basis" to trust an agreement with the PP for its renewal.
  • Politics.Churches and Montero charge the judges after sentencing their spokesperson in Madrid for assaulting the Police

The president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Carlos Lesmes , has urged this Tuesday the PSOE and the PP to carry out once and for all the renewal of the governing body of the judges, which has been in office for more than a year and a half overcome. Lesmes asked both political formations, the only ones capable of adding the majority required to renew the members, to agree.

"No other combination is possible and therefore these two political groups have to agree," Lesmes said before criticizing the performance in this field of the main parties. "In my opinion, the political game is not correct in this field," he concluded, after recalling that the Constitutional Court has also been pending renewal for months.

"It is a field where the rule is established by the Constitution, and if there is something that must be respected, it is the Constitution. And if the term established is five years, five years and two months or three months at the most, so that it gives time to negotiate, renewal must take place. [...] We cannot have very pro-Constitution speeches in some things and less respect in others, "he added in his speech at the Justice Forum of the Madrid Bar Association .

Lesmes explained that in his "journey" as president of the CGPJ he has had three great challenges. Corruption, the independence challenge and the coronavirus pandemic. Reviewing the first, he has defended the actions of the Spanish judges and the help that the Council has given to help the procedures proceed. Something that has happened and that explains that if in 2013 corruption was the second problem of the Spanish, now it is in a forgotten twelfth place.

Words to Pablo Iglesias

Lesmes has recalled the trials and convictions of members of the economic and political power in cases such as the black cards, Gürtel, Nóos and the ERE case. At this point, he has referred to the criticism that Pablo Iglesias launched towards Justice after the conviction of Madrid Councilor Isa Serra .

"All these cases have been tried by independent judges. Those who have been held responsible have been convicted. They are serving prison. With that everything is said. If the judges were manipulated by politicians and were at the service of the powerful, as it came unfortunately to say the second vice president of our Government, these cases would not have gone ahead, "said the president of the CGPJ, an organ that showed its" deep discomfort "by words from Churches that generated" unacceptable suspicions. "

The act was also intervened by the dean of the school, José María Alonso and former TC president Francisco Pérez de los Cobos . The former magistrate has been asked about the delay of sentences such as the abortion law or the reviewable permanent prison sentence. In his response, he has acknowledged that it is "urgent" to sentence those matters.

For his part, the dean has vindicated the role of the legal profession and has regretted that it is not "sufficiently taken into account" in "legislative production" and that it seems to be relegated to a "secondary role".

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