Pons demands that Conde-Pumpido's wife refrain from voting in the CGPJ for the magistrate of the TC who will choose her husband

Compare this "conflict of interest" with the signing of Calviño's husband as coordinator of Marketing of National Heritage

MADRID, 12 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Institutional Vice-Secretary of the PP, Estaban González Pons, has demanded this Monday that Clara Martínez de Careaga García, the wife of Cándido Conde-Pumpido, refrain from voting in the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) for the magistrate of the Constitutional Court ( TC) who will elect the president of this body, since her husband is among the candidates.

In an interview on Telecinco, collected by Europa Press, the leader of the PP has assured that the Government has "a problem with the conflict of interest" by having Conde Pumpido's wife as a member in the body for the election of judges.

"Under these conditions, she will be allowed to choose the magistrate of the Constitutional Court who must choose her husband as president of the Constitutional Court," explained Pons, who considers that "she should either abstain or be challenged."

In any case, he has warned that what can happen with Cándido Conde Pumpido in the election of magistrates in the Council is "like the case of Vice President Calviño, but in the judicial field", alluding to the signing of Ignacio Manrique de Lara as National Heritage Marketing coordinator.

In fact, the PP will take advantage of the next session of control of the Government in the plenary session of Congress to ask the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, for explanations for the hiring of the husband of Vice President Nadia Calviño in National Heritage.

From Patrimonio Nacional, the hiring process of Manrique de Lara has been defended, stressing that he obtained the "highest score" in the criteria evaluated for the position and stressing that his remuneration is "below the average salary for this type of position in the private sector ".