The progressive sector of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) ruled out in a first meeting the option of presenting a resignation en bloc of the entire group to render the Council inoperative and thus force its renewal. During the morning of this Friday, five members, among them the acting president Rafael Mozo, have had a meeting before the “untenable” situation of the body of judges, in office for more than four years.
Organ sources explain that the members Álvaro Cuesta, Clara Martínez de Coreaga, Pilar Sepúlveda, Mozo and Concepción Sáez participated in the meeting. Precisely, the announcement of the latter, proposed by Izquierda Unida, to present its resignation to the president is what has led the progressive sector to study again the possibility of new resignations.
During the meeting they have analyzed the possible scenarios and the possibilities and legal consequences of new resignations “in any case, individual and not collective”. This rules out, a priori, the presentation of a block resignation that could lead to criminal liability for abandonment of public office.
Roser Bach was absent from the meeting, as well as Mar Cabrejas and Enrique Lucas, the latter proposed by the PNV. The president has summoned all of them for a new meeting prior to the plenary session on Thursday, where the debate on the situation of the CGPJ will be opened among all and the resignation of Sáez will be addressed. Several of them have already ruled out the possibility of resignation a long time ago, understanding that they must remain in office due to responsibility until the PP and PSOE agree to appoint new members and renew the body.
The conservative sector, made up of ten members, is not willing to resign in the face of what they consider to be irresponsible because many daily decisions of the courts depend on the Council, such as everything that has to do with transfers of judges, permits, commission of services or disciplinary work.
Some sources of the organ see in these last movements a political intention to create more pressure on the PP and stop unblocking the organ. Since the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this option has been ruled out and less at the foot of an electoral campaign.
