The King presides over the opening of the Judicial Year with the Supreme Court at the limit

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The solemn opening of the Judicial Year will be held today in the Supreme Court with significant weariness within the high magistracy due to the verification that the political forces are involved in a vicious circle that places the third power of the State at the same starting point that twelve months ago.

An errant General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) that continues with its expired mandate -in November it will be four years since the blockade-, the main political parties that instead of putting an end to this institutional crisis act irresponsibly, a Supreme Court limit due to the decrease in its workforce due to the loss of functions of the governing body of the judges and a Constitutional Court that awaits its next renewal with secrecy and some uncertainty.

With this scenario, the judicial year begins in the Plenary Hall of the former Salesas convent, once the palace of the queen of

presided over by King Felipe VI.

Once again, the president of the CPGJ and the Supreme Court,

will deliver his traditional speech -it will be the eighth-, this time focused on the difficult situation that the last jurisdictional instance of our country, the Supreme Court, is going through due to the inability of the CGPJ to make discretionary appointments, which has caused numerous vacancies.

The president will thus affect the relief that some of its Chambers are close to collapsing means for the High Court -the Contentious-Administrative Chamber is the most punished while the Social Chamber, if the Council's blockade continues, will begin to face a very delicate situation this fall - while the Government has only enabled the Judiciary to make the appointments of Constitutional magistrates, with the aim of promoting the change of majorities in the court of guarantees.

In this sense, the most important judicial appointment of the year will be conditioned by the plenary session that will be held in the building opposite Calle Marqués de la Ensenada, the General Council of the Judiciary, the following day.

There is maximum expectation within the judicial career to know what the members will finally do in the extraordinary meeting that has been convened to appoint two Constitutional magistrates.

Several Supreme Court magistrates -

and

- have already declined the offer to be candidates for the court of guarantees in the face of the institutional crisis that is taking place.

In addition, in the High Court there is a deep discomfort due to the neglect that the third power of the State, the Judicial Power, is currently suffering.

Hence, a group of judges of this body see with good that the CGPJ is raised at the time of making the appointments and is suspicious of the attitude of President Lesmes, whom they accuse of acting for his personal interest before the Plenary.

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