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The agreement of the bipartisanship, PP and PSOE, raises the distrust and rejection of most of the groups in Congress that consider the four candidates for the seat in the Constitutional Court, ideological and partial. The reproach is directed mainly at the two candidates proposed by the PP, Enrique Arnaldo and Concepción Espejel. However, this rejection will have no consequences, all of them will surpass the congressional vote since they will have the overwhelming majority support of popular and socialists.

However, and to record their discomfort over the distribution of chairs between PP and PSOE in the body in charge of interpreting the Magna Carta, groups as disparate as Ciudadanos, Vox, ERC or PNV have chosen not to participate in the prescriptions auditions of candidates in the Advisory Committee on Appointments. The first two have attended the start of the meeting to announce that they would not participate in it, while the Catalan Republicans and Basque nationalists have not even made an appearance.

Professor Enrique Arnaldo, proposed by the PP, has been the first candidate to intervene. His name has been harshly questioned because he is considered a jurist very closely linked to the popular ones: he has worked for the Governments of the Balearic Islands and Madrid when they were chaired by Jaume Matas and Ignacio González, and he has collaborated on multiple occasions with the FAES foundation. Arnaldo has insisted that he has never belonged to any political party despite having admitted his participation in "academic debates" promoted by the foundation chaired by the former Prime Minister, José María Aznar.

Magistrate Concepción Espejel, challenged in the Gúrtel case, has demanded a detailed reading of the order of her challenge to verify the nuances of it - "what the press says does not automatically become true", she has assured in her defense - and has refused to maintain a special friendship with the former secretary general of the PP, Dolores de Cospedal. None of this in his opinion detracts from his professionalism and impartiality. "I have never received any type of indication" from any political force, he stressed.

Magistrate Inmaculada Montalbán has promised to carry out her work in the Constitutional Court with "a spirit of concord and full submission to the Magna Carta."

Neither she nor the other three candidates to the TC have wanted to pronounce on the appointment system that has been used to appoint them and that has been described by all the formations, except PP and PSOE, of "pure theater".

Cs and Vox denounce the "theater"

Citizens and Vox have been very critical of the renewal of the Constitutional Court, they have stood in the Appointments Commission and have announced that they would not participate in this "betrayal" of the State institutions.

The spokesmen of both parliamentary groups, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros and Edmundo Bal, have denounced the "theater" that involves the examination of the suitability of the future magistrates of the court of guarantees, specifically, Professor Enrique Arnaldo and the judges Concepción Espejel, Ramón Sáez and Inmaculada Montalbán.

In the case of Bal, he has pointed out that socialists and popular "do not reach agreements for other very important things in this country, such as, for example, the distribution of European funds but the chairs that are not left empty", referring to the supreme interpreter of the Constitution.

He then announced that his parliamentary group was not going to participate "in the little theater that forms this act for the suitability of candidates for the Constitutional Court."

"All the fish are sold," he added.

For his part, the Vox spokesman, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, pointed out during his speech that "today is not a good day for the strengthening of our democracy. (...) Since Sánchez's arrival in power, never in so far In a short time, so many State institutions have been so systematically attacked and it has never been so necessary to shield and protect them. "

In the same way, he maintained when addressing the candidate Arnaldo -first to intervene in the Appointments Committee of the Lower House- that "no one believes that you appear here today because of your professional merits but because you have received a call from Ferraz or Genoa."

"What are you going to do when you get the next call?" He snapped.

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