The PP's implicit veto of Judge Victoria Rosell, the main obstacle to renewing the CGPJ

The PP's implicit veto of Judge Victoria Rosell, to be part of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is revealed as the main stumbling block for an agreement between the PSOE and the PP to renew the governing bodies of the judges, which has been going on for almost four years with the mandate expired and whose negotiation accelerated last week after the resignation of its former president Carlos Lesmes.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
21 October 2022 Friday 05:34
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The PP's implicit veto of Judge Victoria Rosell, the main obstacle to renewing the CGPJ

The PP's implicit veto of Judge Victoria Rosell, to be part of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is revealed as the main stumbling block for an agreement between the PSOE and the PP to renew the governing bodies of the judges, which has been going on for almost four years with the mandate expired and whose negotiation accelerated last week after the resignation of its former president Carlos Lesmes.

And it is that Podemos has communicated to the PSOE that it demands to propose two of the new members of the CGPJ and that one of them has to be precisely Rosell, a profile implicitly vetoed yesterday by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who insisted that “ one” of the “depoliticization requirements” that it establishes in order to reach an agreement prevents judges or magistrates from being among the proposed candidates who currently hold political office or have held it “in recent years”. This is the case of Rosell, current Government delegate against Gender Violence.

According to sources from United We Can quoted by Servimedia, it has "been transferred to the PSOE that the judge must be one of those chosen to be part of the highest body of judges if they want to count on them", because "they have to occupy two positions among the that are elected" and they will not "participate in any agreement if it finally involves a bipartisan distribution, where the PP and the PSOE decide who is and who is not in the highest body of justice".

In particular, de Rosell Podemos praises that "she is probably the best judge in Spain" and "her work in the CGPJ will contribute to the best quality of our democracy".

The party recalls the judicial set-up of former judge Salvador Alba against her when she was going to be a candidate for United We Can for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the 2016 general elections, and that this week has concluded with his imprisonment. "Vicky Rosell has managed to defeat those corrupt practices of the PP and her friendly judges. For her role in dignifying justice against the corrupt judge of the PP Salvador Alba, and her entire career, Vicky Rosell is the best representation of what justice should be in our country", concluded the consulted sources.

In the last hours it has been known that the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, not only negotiates with the PP interlocutor, the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, but also with Enrique Santiago to negotiate the candidates of the purple formation . For its part, the PP assumes that Bolaños represents the entire coalition government.

The possibility is also open that the PNV also has a member of its string, a scenario that the PP does not confirm, but to which they do not close the door either.