• Negotiation.The Government tries to take advantage of the path of open dialogue with the PP to renew the CGPJ
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The Plenary of the General Council of the Judiciary has agreed on Tuesday to withdraw from the agenda the debate and vote on the five discretionary appointments that were to be made: three positions of magistrate of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court , the presidency of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands and the presidency of the Provincial Court of Orense.

According to sources from the governing body of the judges, the decision has been made for "reasons of prudence" given the confirmation of the existence of negotiations between parliamentary groups for the renewal of the Council, whose mandate expired on December 4, 2018.

Other sources of the Plenary consulted by EL MUNDO add that it has been decided to leave discretionary appointments in the air also due to the lack of agreement between the progressive and conservative blocs to appoint three magistrates to the Chamber that judges the graduates in the Supreme Court. Both arguments have had weight in the meeting held this Tuesday at the CGPJ.

Last January, the Council already decided to paralyze the appointment of judicial positions in the confidence of a prompt renovation of the institution, once the Chambers were constituted after the last general elections and the Government was formed.

Renewal, getting closer

The agreement to withdraw the appointments from the agenda has been approved with 16 votes in favor and five against, those of members Carmen Llombart, Nuria Díaz, Ángeles Carmona, Mar Cabrejas and Wenceslao Olea. Llombart has announced the formulation of a private vote, to which Díaz and Carmona have joined.

Since the end of the mandate of the judges' governing body in December 2018, the president of the Supreme Court and of the General Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Lesmes , has addressed by letter four times to the presidents of Congress and the Senate urging them to comply with the provisions of article 568 of Organic Law 6/1985, of July 1, of the Judiciary, which establishes that the presidents of both Houses must adopt the necessary measures so that the renewal occurs on time.

Sources of the Executive and the PP consulted by this newspaper see this agreement for the renewal of the institution closer and closer, although they rule out its occurrence before September. However, the negotiations are taking place with absolute discretion and secrecy after the last frustrated attempt by the socialists and the people to renew the body, placing magistrate Manuel Marchena as president .

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