Llop considers a "quite viable" scenario that the Government appoints the two magistrates of the TC without renewing the CGPJ

MADRID, 13 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has indicated this Monday that she sees "quite viable" the possibility that the Government appoints the two magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC) that corresponds to it by quota even if the General Council of the Judicial Power is not renewed (CGPJ) because they have to comply with the Spanish Constitution.

This has been transferred in an interview on Radiocable, collected by Europa Press, when asked about whether the Executive is going to proceed with the renewal of the two magistrates that correspond to it after this June 12 the mandate of the president of the TC, Pedro González-Trevijano, Vice President Juan Antonio Xiol and Judges Antonio Narváez and Santiago Martínez-Vares with the uncertainty about when and how they will be replaced.

"We have to study all the possibilities and scenarios because we have to comply with the Constitution, which is to renew the constitutional bodies on time," the minister pointed out.

However, Llop hopes that the blockade on the Judiciary will not continue and trusts that talks with the Popular Party will be resumed for renewal. The Constitution dictates that this third of the TC judges must be renewed by the Government and the CGPJ, proposing two candidates each, but the lack of agreement between the PSOE and the PP to agree on a new CGPJ has meant that the current one cannot name their own, which which casts doubt on whether Moncloa can act alone.

The head of Justice has explained that there is a doctrine of the TC that supports the possibility that when one of the bodies that has to renew by thirds, in this case it was a sentence relative to when the turn corresponded to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, "Because of a blockage that could exist in the making of agreements, it could not be renewed, the possibility of either of the two could make that great agreement without having to wait for another."

However, Llop has assured that the PP "has the key to the renewal" of the CGPJ and has asked it to comply with the Constitution. "I should have done it three years ago," he added.