• El Mentidero The decisive role of Lesmes in the plenary session of the CGPJ on Sánchez's counter-reform

The Plenary of

the General Council of the Judiciary

has agreed this Monday to request the Congress of Deputies to obtain the report of this body before approving the legislative reform that enables it to appoint the two magistrates of

the Constitutional Court

in the next renewal.

According to legal sources reported to EL MUNDO, by ten votes in favor, seven against and two blank, the Council urges Congress to request a report "in relation to the proposal for an Organic Law presented by the Socialist parliamentary group for the reform of the Law Body of the Judiciary in the aspect related to the attributions of this Council in the sense of also fully returning to it the attributions for judicial and governmental-judicial appointments of a discretionary nature.

President

Carlos Lesmes

and members of the conservative sector

José Antonio Ballestero, Ángeles Carmona, Nuria Díaz, Juan Manuel Fernández, José María Macías, Juan Martínez Moya, Gerardo Martínez Tristán, Wenceslao Olea

and

Carmen Llombart have supported this initiative.

They have voted against the members of the progressive sector

Roser Bach, Mar Cabrejas, Álvaro Cuesta, Clara Martínez de Careaga, Rafael Mozo, Concepción Sáez

and

Pilar Sepúlveda

.

For their part, the members Enrique Lucas and Vicente Guilarte voted blank.

The approved agreement highlights "the serious damage that is being generated for the proper functioning of the Administration of Justice" due to having handcuffed the CGPJ and stripped it of the function of making appointments.

The members particularly highlight the situation that the Supreme Court is going through, which, at present, has seen its staff reduced by 20 percent due to this inability to make discretionary appointments.

On the other hand, the CGPJ has given up addressing the European Commission as initially intended by a sector of this body.

As this newspaper reported, it was the point that aroused the most misgivings in President Lesmes.

In addition, the members, by 16 votes, have agreed to transfer to the Congress of Deputies the agreement approved on June 27 by the Governing Chamber of the Supreme Court, expressing their deep concern because the lack of renewal of the Council and the legal impossibility of making discretionary appointments are creating a situation in the high court that, if continued, will be untenable.

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