PSOE and PP have closed this week an agreement to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) after more than five and a half years of blockade and several frustrated attempts due to the conservatives’ resistance to closing an agreement with the socialists with different excuses. Now, both parties have agreed to propose ten members each and all that remains is to know the name of the president who, according to the law, must be appointed by the members.
The pact has come after several failed attempts. The one that came closest to materializing took place in November 2018, days before the mandate of the governing body of the judges ended. At that time, the president of the PP was Pablo Casado. But a message from his then spokesman in the Senate, Juan Ignacio Cosidó, boasting of controlling “from behind” [con el nombramiento de Manuel Marchena] The most delicate chamber of the Supreme Court frustrated the renewal. On that occasion, some of the proposed members even appeared before Congress – a legal requirement in the case of those who are elected by the turn of jurists of recognized prestige – and the identities of several of those who were going to access through the route destined for active judges also came to light.
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