The PSOE and United We Can, the two partners of the Government, move tab with respect to the General Council of the Judicial Power (CGPJ).
The governing body of the judges has expired for two years and its renewal is stalled due to the lack of understanding between the socialists and the PP.
Faced with this situation, the Executive, through the parties that support it, has registered in Congress a bill to limit the functions of the
CGPJ
when its mandate has expired, as is the case today.
The two parliamentary groups intend to debate this initiative before the end of this year.
Therefore, it could be that in the week of December 15 it will be included in the agenda of the Plenary of
Congress
, since the PSOE has space for it.
"It is a very important step. In the last two years we have seen how an institution with an expired body made very important decisions for the Judiciary. This is the opposite of what happens with the other branches of the State.
Congress
and the The government cannot make important decisions when they are in office. With this law this anomaly is put to an end and we believe that it is a step in the right direction, "
United Podemos
sources
, who have been very belligerent with this matter
, explain to this newspaper
.
The party led by Pablo Iglesias already expressed at the end of September its intention to bring before the Constitutional Court the election of three new magistrates of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, describing in the mouth of
Jaume Asens
, president of the United We Can parliamentary group, these appointments such as "an act of institutional coup, of institutional corruption."
The
purple ones
have reiterated for weeks, before the position of the PP of not negotiating the renewal of the governing body of the judges if Podemos participated in it, that "the right is entrenched in the dome, it wants like-minded judges to issue favorable resolutions."
"We have a governing body of judges that is now illegitimate (...) And it must cease its will to continue governing and deciding which are the judges who are going to occupy the key and sensitive positions of the judicial leadership," said Asens .
As this newspaper has reported, in the coming weeks a total of six positions of
Supreme Court
judges are expected to be appointed
.
In addition, the CGPJ is currently pending to appoint the president of
the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands
and the president of
the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country
.
The presidency of the
Social Chamber of the National
High Court
is also vacant
after the march last September of the magistrate Ricardo Bodas to the High Court.
In the initiative, signed by Adriana Lastra and Pablo Echenique, in their capacity as spokespersons for both groups, they state the need "to limit the decisions adopted by an outgoing CGPJ, whose members have exceeded the constitutional period of mandate. Thus, powers such as that of propose the appointment of the
President of the Supreme Court
, of the
Presidents of the Hearings
, of the
Superior Courts of Justice
and the
National Court
, of the Presidents of the Chamber and the
Magistrates of the Supreme Court
or of the
Magistrates of the Constitutional Court
, should be excluded from the scope of the Council when it is in office ".
Likewise, they believe that the limitation should also be extended to the appointment of the directors of the
Judicial School
and the
Judicial Documentation Center
, as well as the Vice President of the Supreme Court, the
Promoter of Disciplinary Action
, the
Director of the Technical Cabinet of the General Council of Power Judicial
and the
Chief of the Court Inspection
.
Socialists and purple argue that the Judiciary does not have "an exhaustive regulation on how they have to operate when they are in office" and with this bill they want to put an end to this "legal gap undoubtedly constitutes a deficit in the constitutional design of the State".
"It must be corrected."
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