The TC admits the appeal of the PP, refuses to remove two magistrates and debates on the suspension in the Senate

The conservative majority allows progress towards the decision on the very precautionary measures demanded by the PP

The Plenary of the Constitutional Court (TC) has agreed to admit to processing the appeal of the PP against the two amendments by which the system of election and arrival of the two candidates to the TC appointed by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is modified; and reject the challenges of United We Can (UP) and PSOE against two magistrates; now entering the debate on the request of the PP to urgently suspend the processing of these two amendments in the Senate.

According to legal sources consulted by Europa Press, by 6 votes (those of the conservative majority) against 5 (those of the progressive minority), the appeal of the PP has been admitted for processing.

Immediately afterwards, the appearances claimed by UP and PSOE in separate writings have also been admitted. And, subsequently, the magistrates have resolved -also by a majority of 6 to 5-- not to accept the challenges launched by both parties against two magistrates, raising a technical issue: that the legal-procedural relationship has not yet been established.

The same sources point out that after this the magistrates are now entering the debate on the very precautionary measures requested by the Popular Party in its appeal, with which it asks to paralyze the parliamentary processing of both amendments, which are already in the Senate, after that last Thursday were approved in the Congress of Deputies, along with the bill to repeal sedition in which they are included.

If the TC agrees to these very precautionary measures, it will be an unprecedented situation, since in its more than 40 years of history the court of guarantees has never stopped a debate in the Cortes Generales.

These first decisions come after more than five hours of debate in an extraordinary plenary session of great intensity where the main stumbling block has been the challenge initially launched by UP against González-Trevijano and Narváez, considering that they have a "direct interest" in paralyzing this reform because they would be replaced by the candidates nominated by the Government if the proposed modification goes ahead.

The PSOE was later added to the "morada" recusal, in one of the almost twenty writings that the political parties - including PP and Vox - have presented since last Friday as a result of the challenge formulated by the "popular".

It should be remembered that the Plenary of the TC already met urgently last Thursday, but then González-Trevijano agreed to postpone it to this Monday after the five progressive magistrates threatened to leave, if they were not given more time to study a matter of great "complexity" and "relevance" that they had known just 24 hours before. If they had left, they would have prevented the 'quorum' of at least 8 magistrates that is required for the Plenary to be constituted.