The AJFV says that Reynders is confident that the warnings from Brussels can unlock the renewal of the CGPJ

The commissioner conveys his "concern" that the recommendations to reform the Council do not translate into progress

MADRID, 29 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The national spokesman for the Francisco de Vitoria Judicial Association (AJFV), Jorge Fernández Vaquero, has assured that the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, with whom he met this Thursday during his visit to Madrid, "trusts" that the repeated warnings from Europe to Spain for the lack of renewal of its Judicial Power can unblock this "problem".

In statements to the media after meeting with Reynders, the spokesman for this association of judges has indicated that "more than hopeful", the community representative "confidence that these increasingly strong calls for attention from the European Commission may have some type of effect on those who have to solve the problem, who are not Félix Bolaños or Esteban González Pons, but our deputies and senators who remain passive calmly in their seats as if the thing was not with them".

Asked how Reynders is coping with his three-day visit, the spokesman stated that he believes that the commissioner has not come to "threaten", but rather to "possibly advise" or "ultimately warn" that the situation the The leadership of the Spanish Justice must change, especially after the recommendations of the latest community report on the rule of law.

AJFV, Reynders has informed them of his "concern" that the indications of the latest report, even if they are recommendations, "do not translate into substantial progress", given that the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is a " priority" for the European Commission and is "concerned that despite this forcefulness of the recommendation" it continues "at the same point".

For AJFV, the first actor in the judicial field to meet with Reynders, an issue that can help unlock the renewal of the governing body of the judges is the rotating Presidency of the European Union that corresponds to Spain at the end of next year . "It would not be at all edifying if the situation continued at the point where it is, from the point of view of the Commission", Fernández Vaquero reported.

And he stated that the half-hour meeting went "very well" and added that Reynders is not only interested in the situation of the CGPJ, "although he obviously focuses on everything", but has come to ask about other recommendations from the latest community report on the subject of justice: "The commissioner is interested in knowing what progress has been made on each of these points".

On whether the commissioner has told them if he is going to try to mediate between the Government and the Popular Party, the spokesman for the association of judges has indicated that "he has not" commented on anything about it and "he has not ventured to predict anything either", except that he will speak with "all the actors involved" to "make them see the importance of the renewal of the Council and attend to the recommendations to accommodate our system to European standards", so that the members of the Judicial Extraction Council are chosen by the judges .

From the point of view of AJFV, it is of "pure national necessity and general interest" to renew the Council and then address "seriously and with conviction" the need to "reform" the election system to "avoid a repetition": A new "stage of construction has to be to build solid foundations for the judicial system that are not the ones we have now, which are absolutely destroyed and we cannot continue to function with them."