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The President of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court,

urged this Wednesday in his solemn speech at the Opening of the Judicial Year to the President of the Government,

and the opposition leader

to renew the coming weeks the governing body of the judges.

In a speech full of reproaches to the political forces for the "partisan use" of Justice, President Lesmes stated, in the presence of

the following: "I publicly and solemnly request the President of the Government of Spain and to the head of the opposition, the heads of the political parties with the largest parliamentary representation, to meet urgently and reach an agreement that provides a definitive solution to this unsustainable situation that I have just described, so that the General Council of the Judiciary is renewed in the coming weeks or, if not, be reinstated in the fullness of its powers, granting this request the constitutional and democratic relevance that it really has and leaving aside any party interest".

It is the first public and direct appeal that the highest representative of the Judiciary makes to Sánchez and Feijóo in the face of a judicial situation that he has described as "unacceptable" and "unsustainable."

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