The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, acknowledged yesterday Tuesday that the bill to reform the system and the majorities of the Constitutional Court (TC) "has lost urgency" once the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has elected the two magistrates that correspond to them to designate for the body of guarantees.
Bolaños indicated that the bill's "main purpose" was to unblock the Constitutional Court, something that now ends after the agreement in the governing body of the judges, although he has clarified that the final decision will be made by the parliamentary groups in Congress. once they receive the order of the TC for which the legislative reform in the Senate was paralyzed.
"That urgency has been lost. The Constitutional, in the next few days, will be renewed and a new stage of recovery of the prestige of the TC and all its magistrates will be opened," said the minister in statements on TVE. At this point, Bolaños reiterated that the important thing was to "unblock" the guarantee body and appealed to the PP to reach an agreement to renew the CGPJ now because, according to what he said, Feijóo has been left "alone" and "violating the Constitution".
Thus, the head of the Presidency defended that the CGPJ's election of the two magistrates for the TC, the Supreme Court (TS) magistrate César Tolosa and the retired TS magistrate María Luisa Segoviano, is "magnificent news" because it has been renewed a constitutional body "after months of blockade. In his opinion, the magistrates "are exemplary" and recognized "for their trajectory and exemplary nature." "It was a positive candidacy. The TC has to recover that prestige that has been damaged in recent times," the minister settled.
With this movement, the situation is unblocked in the Constitutional Court, which since June 12 had pending renewal of the four magistrates that make up the third that the Constitution mandates to replace the Government and CGPJ: Pedro González-Trevijano and Antonio Narváez, appointed in their day by the Executive of Mariano Rajoy; and Juan Antonio Xiol and Santiago Martínez-Vares, appointed at the time by the CGPJ.
The two candidates chosen by the governing body of the judges will join the two selected by Moncloa last November: 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.
Now, the Constitutional Government Plenary must analyze the suitability of the candidates, verifying that they meet the legal requirements to be a Constitutional magistrate - being Spanish and judges, prosecutors, university professors, civil servants or lawyers, all of them jurists of recognized competence with more than 15 years of professional practice.
The Constitutional Court (TC) announced this Tuesday that it will convene a plenary session "immediately" to give the pleasure to its new magistrates. No date is indicated, although everything indicates that it would take place this week.
