Rafael Mozo interim president of the CGPJ has retired this Wednesday, so beginning tomorrow he’ll go away workplace and the seat within the Judiciary. His place, on the head of the governing physique of judges, might be assumed by a conservative, Vicente Guilarte. To take cost of the presidency, Guilarte has already left his job as a lawyer and professor, and can go on to have unique dedication to the Plenary, one thing that he didn’t have till now.
Mozo, a progressive, assumed the management of the Judiciary at a convulsive second and on an interim foundation, when President Carlos Lesmes resigned. The duty fell on him for being the oldest vocal. His retirement promotes Guilarte, who was the following oldest member of a council that in December, if nothing adjustments, he’ll serve 5 years in workplace because of the lack of settlement between the political events that should appoint their members.
Mozo turned president of the CGPJ in October of final yr. His appointment brought on tensions between the CGPJ and the Supreme Court, as a result of historically the president of each our bodies is similar. But the blockade modified the whole lot and at last Francisco Marín Castán was appointed appearing president of the High Court and Rafael Mozo in that of the Judiciary.
Mozo says goodbye asking for a “renewal with out excuses” after 23J
In his final plenary session, Mozo has despatched a farewell letter to the CGPJ employees. In it, he has urged political events to resume instantly as of July 23 “with out excuse.”
In the letter, Mozo factors out that “the advice contained within the European Commission Report on the Rule of Law within the EU leaves no room for doubt: that the renewal of the CGPJ be carried out as a precedence and that it start instantly after renewal, a course of with a view to adapting the appointment of its members of judicial origin, bearing in mind the European requirements on the Councils of the Magistracy”.
“I reiterate from right here, with the firmness that the very long time that has elapsed permits me – since December 4, 2018 – my request to the political forces involved, in order that, with none excuse or pretext, these suggestions are taken severely and in order that they proceed instantly, as quickly because the electoral course of wherein we’re immersed is over, to the renewal of this governing physique, which calls for not solely the Spanish Constitution, but additionally the EU”, stated the president of a physique that they can not appoint judges as a result of they’re in workplace.
Mozo has warned that “persevering with this case weakens and erodes the principle establishments of Spanish Justice and, due to this fact, our Rule of Law”.
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