The obsession of the PP to control the Supreme Chamber that judges corruption is still alive | Spain
The 10 conservative vowels of the General Council of the Judiciarychosen at the proposal of the PP, do not admit that a woman, Ana Ferrer, veteran magistrate belonging to the progressive association judges and judges for democracy, presides for the first time the Criminal Chamber of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Courtthe judicial body that investigates the corruption of the political class. The 10 progressive vowels chosen at the proposal of the PSOE and to add do not accept that a magistrate of the Supreme Court supported by the conservative block presides that same Second Chamber.
Since the appointment has to have the support of 13 of the 21 members of the General Council of the Judiciary, the blockade is guaranteed. It is a situation similar to the one that allowed the PP Control the General Council of the Judiciary for five years through five years. The PP refused with various excuses during that time to the renewal established by the Constitution.
Forced to consensus – 13 of 21 votes are necessary to approve the appointments – the current CGPJ has been failing in this effort for months. Meanwhile, Judge Andrés Martínez Arrieta exercises the presidency of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and is the candidate for that position of the Judicial Power.
His predecessor in the presidency of the Second Chamber, Manuel Marchena, had to give up presiding over the Supreme Court when he knew that the Popular Party considered it the useful instrument to control “from behind” the Second Chamber. Wounded in his dignity, Marchena renounced the proposal to preside over the General Council of the Judiciary and remained at the head of the body that the PP considered under its control.
During this time, the Supreme Second Chamber confirmed the conviction for serious corruption of the PP government in the Bárcenas and Gürtel casesI judged and punished with high prison sentences of Catalan independence leaders for sedition and embezzlement and He prevented the application of Amnesty’s law to the fugitive Carles Puigdemont, among other sentences.
For 20 years, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme has been dominated by conservative magistrates. After the arrival of the government of José María Aznar, in 1996, the PP imposed the roller for the most part of the General Council of the Judiciary and copied the main positions that were being vacant in the Supreme, since qualified majorities were not required. When the Pp He arrived at the Government, the Criminal Chamber had six conservative magistrates and seven progressive. When the PP lost power in 2004, it had reversed that situation in favor of the judicial right. A situation that comes to today: 15 magistrates that make up the Second Chamber, there are only four of the so -called Progressive Sector in an organ that settles the criminal causes against the agorated politicians.
The PP obsession to continue controlling that Chamber now reaches the presidency of the organ. When they tried to place the marine magistrate in front of the General Council of the Judiciary Through a pact with the PSOE, they explained it in a message sent to their deputies and senators: “It has been a great play that I have lived from the first line. We played the future renewals of two thirds of the Supreme Court and hundreds of appointments in the Judiciary, vital for the PP and for the future of Spain (…) A great jurist with a leadership capacity and authority so that the votes are not 11-10 but close to 21-0.
