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Pedro Izquierdo

, the magistrate of the Seville Court who was a high position in the socialist governments of Chaves and Griñán, will not be part of the Chamber that must now be in charge of the execution of the sentence of the corruption case of the ERE.

The three magistrates who will take on this task will, in all probability, be

Pilar Llorente

,

Patricia Fernández Franco

and

Enrique García López-Corchado

, as confirmed by EL MUNDO.

Judges Llorente, Fernández Franco and García López are the members of the Chamber, based on the

rules of internal substitution

of the First Section of the Court of Seville.

And, although the parties have not yet been informed of the exact composition of the Chamber, everything indicates that these three magistrates will be in charge of executing the ERE sentence.

Izquierdo presides over the First Section of the Court of Seville, the Chamber in charge of enforcing the sentence of the ERE, but he was removed from the case when the trial was to be held, precisely because of his time as Secretary General for Justice, a position with the rank of

deputy councilor

of the Junta de Andalucía.

He was in office with former presidents Chaves, Griñán and also with Susana Díaz.

The PP, which exercises the accusation in the

ERE case

, challenged Izquierdo and the Third Section of the Court agreed with him and removed him from the ERE trial, understanding that the

cause of abstention or recusal

of the article concurred in his case

219.10 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary, that of "having

a direct

or indirect interest in the cause or lawsuit."

Therefore, that recusal of Izquierdo for the holding of the trial will continue to be in force now for the execution of the sentence of the Supreme Court.

The firm ruling of the ERE condemns fifteen former senior officials of the Andalusian Government, including former Andalusian presidents Chaves and Griñán, for setting up an opaque system to arbitrarily distribute and patronage

769 million

euros over a decade , with the excuse of helping workers in companies in crisis.

Of the fifteen convicted, there are

nine former senior officials

, including Griñán, with

prison sentences

, since they have been sentenced for crimes of embezzlement, in addition to prevarication.

In theory, the First Section of the Court could decree his

immediate entry into prison

, since they are very high prison sentences and the sentence is final.

Chaves and five other former senior officials have only sentences of

disqualification

because the crime they committed was prevarication.

With six years in prison are, in addition to Griñán, the former directors

José Antonio Viera

(Employment),

Carmen Martínez Aguayo

(Economy and Finance), the former deputy minister for Innovation

Jesús María Rodríguez

and the former general director of the Agency Idea -the

box payer

of the ERE-

Miguel Ángel Serrano

.

Seven years in prison have fallen on the former directors

Antonio Fernández

(Employment) and

Francisco Vallejo

(Innovation) and the former Deputy Minister of Employment

Agustín Barberá

, while

Juan Márquez

, former director general of Labor and Social Security, has been sentenced by the Supreme Court to three years in prison, reducing the seven years initially imposed by the Seville Court.

Despite the high prison sentences, the defense lawyers are going to try, by all means, to ensure that their clients do not go to jail, either by requesting pardons -as Griñán and Vallejo have done- or appeals before the Supreme and the Constitutional Court.

Neither the request for pardon nor the appeals automatically paralyze the execution of a sentence, although the Chamber has the power to decide how to execute the sentence.

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