The appointment of the two candidates of the Government to the TC hinders the negotiations in the CGPJ: "The panorama changes"

Conservative members perceive Campo and Díez as two excessively politicized profiles

MADRID, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The appointment of former minister Juan Carlos Campo and former Moncloa senior official Laura Díez as government candidates for the Constitutional Court (TC) has had an impact on the negotiations between the progressive and conservative blocs of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to appoint to the two applicants who complete the third of magistrates of the TC pending renewal, since the conservative members believe they are politicized profiles that must be compensated.

"Change the panorama", summarize the sources of the governing body of the judges consulted by Europa Press, after the Executive has appointed Campo, the Minister of Justice who processed the pardons of those convicted by the 'procés', and Díez , a professor at the University of Barcelona, ​​adviser to the Catalan Government for the reform of the Statute and a former senior position in the Ministry of the Presidency.

And this because from the conservative bloc they perceive Campo and Díez as two excessively politicized candidates since both have served the current Executive. "They come from the government plumbing," they illustrate.

Thus, the conservative wing sees it necessary to guarantee that the two candidates for the court of guarantees that it is the responsibility of the CGPJ to propose are blameless from the point of view of impartiality.

In this way, the two currents of the CGPJ assume that the fact that the Government has made its two candidates known will influence their internal negotiations to search for possible applicants.

The spokesmen for both blocks --Álvaro Cuesta and Roser Bach, from the progressive side, and José Antonio Ballestero and Carmen Llombart, from the conservative side-- will meet tomorrow at 12:00 noon to continue with the negotiations aimed at appointing their two candidates who, together with the government duo, make up the third that should have been renewed on June 12.

The meeting had already been scheduled since last week, when the negotiators reached an impasse after the progressives insisted on keeping Supreme Court (TS) magistrate José Manuel Bandrés as their candidate and the conservatives insisted on changing the rules. of the game to avoid what they perceive as a "card deal".

According to the aforementioned sources, the negotiators will ratify their respective positions tomorrow, so little progress is expected from the meeting on November 30.

The progressive sector will attend with the intention of maintaining Bandres' candidacy while the conservative spokesmen will reiterate the need to put more names on the table so that the two candidates can negotiate jointly.

As Europa Press has learned, the conservative block already handled six names: Pablo Llarena, Julián Sánchez Melgar and Vicente Magro, from the Criminal Chamber of the TS; and César Tolosa, Inés Huerta and Diego Córdoba, from the Contentious-Administrative Chamber.

However, the best positioned to obtain the endorsement of the CGPJ as a whole are Tolosa and Pablo Lucas, the TS magistrate in charge of controlling the activity of the CNI.

The CGPJ has promised to hold a first vote in its ordinary plenary session on December 22, although the sources stress that it is likely that there will be no white smoke that day, which could postpone any agreement until next year.