The president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Vicente Guilarte, is considering leaving office in the summer if the proposal he is going to make for the renewal of that body is not accepted and admits: “My role is a little deteriorated and I am not “I paint a lot.”
In an interview on Onda Cero, Guilarte thus explained the news that El Español published this Friday about the comment he made to his colleagues during the meeting of the Permanent Commission about his intention to leave office in the face of the institution’s blockade for more than a year. of five years.
“The plan for meetings was proposed and when the August thing came out, I told them: put it however you want, that in August I don’t have much intention of continuing here. That was the approach, from which perhaps too much point has been taken,” He clarified, after pointing out that with expiration dates “it’s the same as with yogurt, you can eat it later.”
CGPJ sources have told EFE that Guilarte did not announce his departure, but rather made a reflection in which he stated that he should not be in office in the summer.
What’s more, the sources frame his words in a “totally colloquial” tone because Guilarte was not talking about himself, but about everyone, since he did not understand how they could think about the August agenda. What happens, the sources add, is that there are members of the Permanent Party who are eager for him to leave and cling to what they want to hear.
In the interview, he indicated that his intention before leaving the Council is to “promote the renewal” of this body, and he announced that he has articulated a proposal to send it to the Congress, Senate, parties and associations. “And from what emerges from there, I think that my role here is a little deteriorated and I don’t paint much.”
“I perceive that within the Council I do not have much support either, my ideas are not those of a vocation for permanence that some here have, and I think that perhaps it is time for someone else to take the lead,” he assured.
For this reason, he has stated that before leaving office he wants to present his proposal to these organizations starting Monday because “that last foreign formula that we had out there (in reference to the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders) I have no news of what is being said, if anything is being said.
His proposal involves a change in the way of choosing members of the courts “to avoid discretion” through “an objective scale of the criteria to meet the merits to be a member of a court.”
“It is not difficult to articulate it, a specialized court with rotations is needed so that the designation cannot be used politically,” he observed.
In this regard, he recalled that there are currently 122 appointments pending (the acting CGPJ is prohibited from making them), and he considered that if they are appointed with a Council that is “elected by the parties and with a demand for political fidelity, it would be dramatic for the CGPJ”.
At all times he has made it clear that this proposal is made “on a personal basis” and has criticized that among some of his colleagues he perceives an idea of ??permanence “ad infinitum”,
“I am quite alone, some would be of that idea, but not many,” he lamented, and highlighted in this sense that he was appointed president of the CGPJ for being the oldest member “not for representativeness.”
