Last July, days before its renewal after more than five years in office, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) approved the participation as speakers of four of its outgoing members in two courses in Colombia and Uruguay that will be held next autumn when all of them will have the status of ex-members. The agreements of the Permanent Commission that endorse these trips authorize that the flights be made “in a class higher than tourist” and guarantee that the former members of the body “would receive remuneration” for these presentations in the event of “disengagement” from the CGPJ.
In response to questions from elDiario.es, a spokesperson for the institution stated that the procedure has been “absolutely normal”. He stated that the programme began to be worked on in April and that the selection of the course coordinators and speakers – among whom there are also judges, prosecutors, professors, lawyers from the CGPJ or professors from the Judicial School – has to be done with a certain margin of time to make the dissemination possible and for those interested to be able to register. The same spokesperson insists that they participate in their capacity as “experts” in the subject. The seminars are aimed at members of the judicial powers of Latin American and Caribbean countries and are carried out in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
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