The four new Constitutional magistrates will be sworn in this Saturday before the King

They will take office on January 9 at the headquarters of the guarantee court

MADRID, 31 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The four new magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC) --who were proposed by the Government and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and already endorsed by the court of guarantees itself-- will swear or promise their position before King Felipe VI this Saturday, at 9:00 a.m., at the Palacio de la Zarzuela.

The two magistrates appointed by the Executive --the magistrate of the National Court and former Minister of Justice Juan Carlos Campo and the former director general of the Ministry of the Presidency Laura Díez-- and the two appointed by the CGPJ --the magistrate of the Supreme Court ( TS) César Tolosa and the retired magistrate of the TS María Luisa Segoviano-- will appear before the Head of State this Saturday and then take office on January 9 at the headquarters of the Constitutional Court.

According to sources from the guarantee court consulted by Europa Press, these two dates are already set in the calendar, so that after the appointment of January 9 will come the next step, which is the election of the new president.

For this, a new plenary session will be formally convened, which cannot be scheduled until the new magistrates have taken office, but which several sources of the TC assert that it will foreseeably be on January 10.

It should be remembered that last Thursday the Plenary of the TC gave the go-ahead to the four new magistrates for the partial renewal of the guarantee body after examining whether they met the suitability requirements established by law.

As reported by the guarantee body, the Government Plenary unanimously approved the candidacies of Campo, Díez, Tolosa and Segoviano. The court considered that the four meet the established requirements: they are Spanish citizens who are career magistrates, prosecutors, lawyers, university professors or public officials, "all of them jurists of recognized competence with more than 15 years of professional practice or active in the respective function ".

The four magistrates appointed by the Government and the CGPJ will replace the president of the TC, Pedro González-Trevijano; its vice president, Juan Antonio Xiol; and the magistrates Antonio Narváez and Santiago Martínez-Vares, who make up the third that the Constitution commissions to renew the Executive and the governing body of judges.

Thus, the partial renewal of the TC takes place, which had been pending since June 12 when four of the 12 magistrates of the court saw their mandate expire.