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White smoke between the PSOE and the PP to renew the constitutional bodies. The two main parties have agreed this Thursday on the appointments of the Constitutional Court, the

Ombudsman

, the

Data Protection Agency

and the Court of Accounts.

According to sources from the negotiation to EL MUNDO, the new magistrates of the Constitutional Court will be Professor

Enrique Arnaldo

and the president of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court,

Concepción Espejel

(at the proposal of the PP), as well as the magistrate of the Court Nacional

Ramón Sáez Valcárcel

and the former member of the CGPJ and magistrate

Inmaculada Montalbán,

at the proposal of the PSOE. With this pact ends the situation of blockade that weighed on the renewal of the court of guarantees since November 2019. By appointing two counselors from the formation of Pablo Casado and another two from the PSOE, the balance of forces is maintained in the body in charge of interpreting the Constitution, which maintains a conservative majority.

For his part, the Ombudsman will be the former leader of the Madrid PSOE Ángel Gabilondo.

This morning, the PP already accepted this proposal, as this newspaper advanced.

Teresa Jiménez Becerril will be attached to Gabilondo.

The councilors of the Court of Accounts have also been renewed.

These pacts return a certain normality to the relationship between PSOE and PP, after the names of the CGPJ were agreed in 2018, but the pact was frustrated due to the refusal of Manuel Marchena to preside over the body, after knowing a WhatsApp of the PP on the alleged control that they were going to have from the second chamber of the Supreme Court.

The agreement is the first since February, when the Executive and PP agreed to renew the

Board of Directors of RTVE

, but ran aground in the CGPJ, after having been about to unblock it.

Now we have not entered into the renewal of the CGPJ, which is the most important and the most difficult to unlock.

It is left for later.

For this organism, the PP demands a reform of the

Organic Law of the Judicial Power

that allows that the judges choose between them at least half of the members of the Council.

Now the judicial leadership remains the only blocked institution.

The agreement for the rest of the organizations comes after, on the 14th, the leader of the opposition threw the gauntlet at the Prime Minister in the control session, in Congress: "Let's renew the other organs."

Sánchez closed himself out, but minutes later the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, appeared before the media to announce that he would call Genoa.

Negotiations between Teodoro García Egea and Bolaños began on the afternoon of that Wednesday, they bore fruit without names on Thursday morning, stopped for the 40th Congress of the PSOE and have resumed this week.

Both have been maintaining dialogue for months.

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  • PSOE

  • PP

  • General Council of the Judiciary

  • Court of Accounts

  • Supreme court

  • Manuel Marchena

  • Angel Gabilondo

  • constitutional Court

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