Internal anger in the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), whose mandate has expired since December 2018, due to the holding of an extraordinary plenary session on the agreement to increase judges’ salaries, is expected to last longer than the convening of this plenary session. The vice-chairman, progressive Rafael Mozo, canceled the meeting after being urged to do so by the same five members who called for it to be held last Friday. These councilors claim that this plenary session has lost its meaning due to Mozo’s decision to move it to Wednesday, since the pact between the executive and the associations will have been signed (the law is scheduled for this Tuesday). The President has decided to cancel the extraordinary session and to reconvene the ordinary plenary session scheduled and canceled for Thursday to include it in Wednesday’s session.
The chatter in plenary on the analysis of the salary increase is the final episode of the situation of internal disintegration in which the installed CGPJ lives. The plenary session will no longer take place, but the controversy surrounding its convening is bleeding a little more dry in the Council, where the Conservative majority is already openly questioning the leadership of Mozo, the member chosen after Carlos Lesmes’ resignation to lead the To lead a body that has been in office for more than four years (current mandate expired in December 2018).
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The decision adopted by Mozo this Tuesday means canceling the extraordinary session, reconvening the ordinary session and adding the following item to the agenda: “Reporting on the members Juan Martínez Moya, Francisco Gerardo Martínez Tristán and José Antonio Ballestero appointed by the plenary Pascual.” as members of the Remuneration Committee, in relation to the negotiation process that has taken place on the adequacy of the remuneration of judges and prosecutors and the assessment of the resulting situation.”
For some members of the plenary session this was the formula that should have been followed from the start, but Mozo was forced to call an extraordinary session because five members had written to ask him to do so (four proposed by the PP in 2013). part of the plenary session and a proposal from the PNV). The President called but did not agree to the request for this meeting to be held this Monday, as requested by the signatories, so that the salary agreement could be analyzed before the government and associations signed it, instead rescheduling the plenary session for Wednesday . “It didn’t make much sense. Either do it on the Monday before the signature, or leave it on Thursday when we have all already put together the agenda for the plenary session. Wednesday is absurd,” stresses one progressive member. Sources at the panel assure that several directors had complained to the President about this decision, which likely prompted Mozo to cancel the meeting and revert to the original plan after those who requested the extraordinary meeting asked for it to be cancelled.
The first reason given by these five members (Ballestero, Martínez Tristán, José María Macías, Carmen Llombart and Enrique Lucas) for the cancellation of the extraordinary meeting is that it was pointless to hold it after the salary agreement had been signed, but in their The decision also weighed on the fact that the CGPJ was not summoned by the government to sign this pact, which will be attended only by the ministries of justice and public function and the associations of judges and prosecutors present at the remuneration table and which accepts the agreement have (all but the Professional Association of the Magistracy, APM, the largest and most conservative).
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