MADRID, 30 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Constitutional Court has dismissed the request of three progressive magistrates to examine the two candidates appointed by the Government to form part of the guarantee court –the former Minister of Justice Juan Carlos Campo and the former high office of Moncloa Laura Díez– . It has agreed to wait until the plenary session of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) on December 22 to find out if it appoints its two magistrates.
Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the proposal of the magistrates Cándido Cónde-Pumpido, Ramón Sáez and Inmaculada Montalbán has been voted on in the plenary session of the court, but it has not gone ahead due to the casting vote of the president of the body, Pedro González- Trevijano.
This decision takes place after yesterday Tuesday the Government approved in the Council of Ministers the names of the two magistrates that it is up to the Constitutional Court to designate. Yesterday, sources consulted by this agency explained that, for the moment, Campo and Díez would not be examined alone in the plenary session of the TC.
The court 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 Plenary of the CGPJ is scheduled to meet on December 22, although there is still no certainty that on that day the governing body of the judges will choose the two candidates it is responsible for designating.
