The Judiciary has five days to choose a president from among the judges of the process, the ERE and the CNI wiretaps

The new General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is getting underway this week after five years of blockage and with one main objective on the agenda: to elect a new president. This Thursday, in its first plenary session, the 20 new members proposed up to seven candidates for judges, all from the Criminal and Contentious Chambers of the Supreme Court. And it will be next Tuesday when, in another plenary session, the new head of the recently renewed CGPJ will be elected, so the magistrates have five days to deliberate.

The progressives Pilar Teso and Ana Ferrer are two of the candidates with the best chances at a time when the goal is for a woman to preside over the governing body of judges, while the surprise candidacy of Antonio del Moral is seen as the most solid option for the conservatives. The seven are judges who have passed through the hands of some of the most relevant sentences of the last decade: the Gürtel case, the ERE in Andalusia, the independence process, the exhumation of Franco or the wiretapping of Catalan politicians by the CNI.