The CGPJ will hold an extraordinary plenary session on December 20 to vote for the candidates for the Constitutional

On the agenda there are only two applicants, César Tolosa and Pablo Lucas, but more may be added

MADRID, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) will hold an extraordinary plenary session on December 20, at 5:00 p.m., to vote for the candidates it is responsible for designating for the Constitutional Court.

Sources from the governing body of the judges have confirmed to Europa Press that on the agenda is the point relating to the appointment of the magistrates to the guarantee court that have been proposed, in reference to the Supreme Court magistrates César Tolosa and Pablo Lucas , but more applicants may be added.

The call takes place after yesterday Wednesday the conservative bloc proposed Tolosa and Lucas to get the interim president, Rafael Mozo, to convene an extraordinary plenary session that allows voting and electing the two names that the governing body of the judges before December 22, when it is expected that the legal reform promoted by the PSOE and Unidas Podemos that would favor the current candidate of the progressive sector: José Manuel Bandrés, will be approved.

César Tolosa has been a Supreme Court magistrate since 2014. Currently, he presides over the Contentious-Administrative Chamber. He entered the Judicial Career in 1982 and had his first appointment in the Court of First Instance and Instruction of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara). In 2004 he was elected president of the Superior Court of Justice of Cantabria, a position in which he remained until his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Pablo Lucas is a magistrate of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court since November 2001, the date on which he entered the judicial career for the shift reserved for jurists of recognized competence with at least 15 years of practice. He is in charge of controlling the activity of the CNI and was on the first list of nine candidates released by progressive members last October.