The interim president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Vicente Guilarte, assured yesterday that he believes that the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, has been "naive" when negotiating the renewal of the governing body of the judges with the PSOE and the PP, regretting at the same time that there has been no "progress" in this regard.
"From a neutral perspective, which is what I must maintain, we have two negotiators who each go their own way and who do not converge anywhere," Guilarte said last night in an interview on Cadena Ser, in which he showed " perplexed" because, in his opinion, there has not been a "negotiation" between the two main parties, but rather "they have met twice and each one has staged its position.
In this sense, the interim president of the CGPJ acknowledged that he has not noticed "any progress" in the negotiation, while at the same time he has indicated that he believes that Commissioner Reynders was "naive" in the two meetings. "Reynders sinned the first time and he sinned the second. I don't know how he hallucinates in flamenco, but he will be hallucinating. I think he wanted to have a certain political profitability for his designs and I don't think it turned out well."
Guilarte has also stated that he tries to help in the renewal of the governing body of the judges, but it would make no sense to continue in office if he does not succeed, which is why he is considering resigning in the summer. "I also don't want to make any noise or have it used politically. I think I have played a role and tried to help in the renewal. I have seen that until today my behavior and my attitude have not generated the slightest impact on that possible renewal," he admitted. while acknowledging a certain discomfort with other members of the CGPJ. "I don't enjoy the sympathies of many of my colleagues," he noted.
On the other hand, Guilarte defended his proposal for the modification of the system of appointment of government positions and of judges of the Supreme Court and of election of members of the CGPJ, a 17-page document in which formulas are proposed to avoid future blockages of the body. and other measures against the politicization of Justice.
The president of the CGPJ said that we must "look for intermediary formulas" before the attitude of the two major parties, which "each one goes their own way and will never meet."
Specifically, he referred to the appointments of the governing body of judges in the judicial leadership and in the election of government positions, which would affect the Presidency of the National Court, of Provincial Courts, of the TSJ, as well as of the Chamber of the National Court, Chambers of the TSJ and Presidencies of Chambers of the Supreme Court.
Guilarte stressed that he has "lived the experience" about "how presidents of the hearings are appointed" and there are candidates that "we don't even know" from the CGPJ. "I do not want to describe anyone pejoratively. I am not qualified nor are my colleagues to value certain disciplines to which I am alien," he warned, while insisting that government positions, which "is a bureaucratic government," must be appointed by the judges of the territory, who are the ones who know them.
