The progressive members maintain the candidacy of Bandrés to the TC after the offer of the conservatives to appoint Segoviano

The progressive members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) have formalized this Friday their proposal to appoint

as magistrate of the Constitutional Court.

They do so after the members of the conservative sector raised yesterday an alternative name, that of the until recently also a Supreme Court magistrate

.

In the plenary session held this Thursday, half a dozen of the 10 conservative members announced their willingness for the progressive magistrate to accompany the candidate

in the vote for the two seats on the TC that correspond to the Council.

In the absence of these two appointments, the two magistrates

appointed by the Government cannot access the Constitutional Court and thus give it a progressive turn.

The appointments of the CGPJ will be addressed again in an extraordinary plenary session set for the next day 27. The progressive bloc arrives with Bandrés as a single candidate.

The conservatives propose Tolosa as their

of this bloc and, furthermore, Segoviano as the best progressive option.

The magistrate, of recognized professional prestige, was the first woman to preside over a Chamber of the Supreme Court, that of Social Affairs, which she recently left due to retirement.

Appointments must have a 3/5 majority, which makes it necessary for magistrates from one of the blocs to support candidates from the other.

If not, as happened in the plenary session on Tuesday, there are no appointments.

In that meeting, the duo offered by the conservative sector at the time achieved 10 votes, when it needed to reach 11. Bandrés, for his part, obtained seven progressive votes.

In that vote, the progressive magistrate presented by the conservatives was Pablo Lucas.

The name has been replaced by that of Segoviano in the hope that he can convince the progressive bloc, which however remains for now in the Bandrés candidacy.

This magistrate does not have the support of the conservatives, who consider him the candidate of

and who see

as too close , a possible new president of the Constitutional Court if one day, by consensus of the members or by legal reform, he arrives The renewal.

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