SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 15 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has requested this Thursday the members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), who meet this Friday electronically, to reach an agreement to elect the two magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC) and thus recover “institutional normality”.
“Let’s see what happens tomorrow,” he told journalists in Tenerife after awarding some decorations to the judicial community, stressing that “surely” there will be an agreement in the coming days because in Spain “there are great jurists who meet the necessary requirements for those charges.
Along these lines, he has said that “in that great cast” there are “names” to propose them as magistrates of the Constitutional Court while he has reminded the members that they “abide” the Constitution and that when they took office “they swore allegiance to the legal system “, and this appointment falls within that function.
Llop has insisted that it is a “optional act” and has wondered “what would happen” if the Government decided not to propose or appoint the magistrates.
“It would mean a blockade and I am sure that they will understand that it is important to reach that agreement, we need institutional normality”, she pointed out, since Spain is experiencing an “extraordinary and abnormal situation”, as the European Commission has revealed for the lack of renewal of the CGPJ.
In this sense, he has said that here “there are no equidistances” and the political forces “do not have the same responsibility” in the lack of election of the members, since the PP is “guilty that the renewal of the Council does not take place.” “If it had occurred, we would not be in this situation with respect to the Constitutional Court,” he added.
