The progressive sector of the CGPJ points to José Manuel Bandrés as its candidate for the Constitutional Court

Progressives and conservatives will hold a meeting starting at 4:00 p.m. this Thursday

MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The members of the progressive sector of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) have appointed Supreme Court judge José Manuel Bandrés as their candidate for the Constitutional Court, sources from the governing body of the judges have informed Europa Press. The same sources have explained that the progressives will hold a meeting this Thursday from 4:00 p.m. with the conservative wing.

Judge Bandrés has been in the judicial career since 1980 and since 2003 in the Supreme Court, where he has served in the Third Chamber, the Contentious-Administrative Chamber. He has a doctorate in Law, has been a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona and has studied at various European faculties and academies in France, Italy and the Netherlands.

He took his first steps as a judge in the courts of Guernica and Luno (Basque Country), Vilanova y la Geltrú (Catalonia), and in Calamocha and Calatayud (Aragón), until in 1985 he was appointed magistrate of the Contentious Chamber of the Territorial Court of Barcelona, ​​precedent of the Catalan High Court of Justice.