Justice The progressive bloc arrives fractured in plenary to elect president of the TC
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The magistrate
Cándido Conde-Pumpido
has been elected this Wednesday as the new president of the Constitutional Court.
Of a progressive nature, former State Attorney General at the time of the José Luis Rodríguez governments, he will become the twelfth president of the guarantee court.
Conde-Pumpido has had the support of the progressive sector of the court, while the professor of Constitutional Law María Luisa Balaguer, who also aspired to the presidency, has been supported by the conservative magistrates.
For her part, the magistrate Inmaculada Montalbán has been elected vice president, according to legal sources to EL MUNDO.
Both Pumpido and Montalbán have obtained six votes for their appointments.
The Galician magistrate will preside over a court of guarantees with a progressive majority - seven members of this sensitivity against four conservatives - until 2025, that is, during the next two and a half years.
The role played by the president is fundamental within the body, it is key when it comes to prioritizing the issues that the court must resolve, since it draws up the agenda of the plenary sessions.
In addition, he enjoys the casting vote.
The program designed by Conde-Pumpido for the presidency contemplates as its main objective "to bring the court up to date."
In addition, the magistrate will work to modernize the body with the adoption of innovative measures such as holding public hearings or giving priority to the resolution of amparo appeals that raise issues on which there is no jurisprudence to affect, for example, the new technologies or artificial intelligence.
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