“An disagreeable assembly”, that is how the Justice of the Peace of the Constitutional Court, María Luisa Balaguer, has outlined the just about eight hours of deliberations of the High Court, in an interview on the SER chain. She lived it firsthand. Progressive, she is among the 11 magistrates who determined this Monday on the attraction of the PP towards the reform of the courtroom itself. She and 4 different classmates voted towards it, however the Conservative majority received.
Balaguer doesn’t conceal his indignation. “It will not be potential for the Constitutional Court to situation nationwide sovereignty. This is how a rule of regulation can’t be created,” mentioned the Justice of the Peace, who has introduced that she’s going to draft a non-public opinion like the remainder of her colleagues from the progressive bloc .
He affirms that it didn’t happen to them to be absent from the plenary session, in order that there can be no quorum and the vote can be annulled. “We don’t contemplate them. We usually are not ‘hooligans’. The relaxation? I desire to not know if everybody thinks like me (…) There are a collection of behaviors that shouldn’t be from my era,” she mentioned.
“We usually are not ‘hooligans’. The relaxation? I desire to not know if everybody thinks like me” (Mª Luisa Balaguer, Justice of the Peace of the Constitutional Court)
The Justice of the Peace acknowledges that they have been “caught by the urgency of a majority” – conservative – that urged the vote. The attraction of the PP that paralyzes the judicial reform that included the renewal of the Constitutional was admitted by 6 votes to five. Two of the conservative votes belong to magistrates who’ve been challenged and whose mandate has expired.
“The resolution needs to be inside” (Mª Luisa Balaguer, Justice of the Peace of the Constitutional Court)
Balaguer believes that even when Europe is appealed to, the scenario needs to be resolved in Spain. “I’m a European, however I’ve no hope that this may be solved past internally,” she assured when requested a few potential attraction to the High Court of Justice of the EU. The Justice of the Peace recalled that yesterday’s determination “is merely political” and careworn that the Spanish Constitutional Court will not be a political physique.