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Thursday, August 20, 2015

SPAIN: Citizens Constitutional raises suppress their politicization – EntornoInteligente

SPAIN: Citizens Constitutional raises suppress their politicization / World / Citizens, representing the balance blind justice is unbalanced by policy. “We want an independent judiciary from the other branches of government. The policy has to remove its claws of justice”. It is one of the pillars of the ideology of Citizens. The party that presides Albert Rivera places the politicization of the judiciary as one of its priorities in its political project. In his view, political pollution is excessive, to the point raised by opening the debate on the disappearance of the Constitutional Court (TC). “It is seen that has to exist. The judges are elected by the political parties themselves. It is unacceptable. The same is better remove it and it’s the Supreme Court (TS) the highest judicial body, as, for example, in the US” explained in the game. Also they bet because judges elect the judges. That is, the members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) are appointed by professional colleagues and not by political parties.

“We have to rethink the existence of TC” notes Juan Carlos Girauta MEP Citizens, secretary of Institutional Relations and EU Parties and member of the party executive. “It was conceived as an institution outside the judiciary, the legislature and has resulted in a completely politicized body. Jump right into judgments of the Supreme and, in many cases, can make amends to political parties that are appointed who have its members, “he adds.

Recall that in early July the PP and the PSOE rejected in Congress prohibit militasen TC judges in political parties or unions, to vote together against a proposal to amend the Esquerra Republicana Organic Law of the Constitutional Court. Judicial independence seems unfinished. A report published by the European Commission in May stood at Spain as the third country of the European Union -after Slovakia and Bulgaria and with Croatia, where the perception of the independence of justice for the citizens is lower. And the progression does not seem encouraging. In 2010, the indicator independence of the judiciary in Spain stood at 4. In 2013, it dropped to 3.2.

The Constitutional Court consists of 12 members with the title of judges, appointed by the King. Elect four nominated by the Congress of Deputies, by a majority of three-fifths of its members; four by the Senate, by a majority of three-fifths of its members; two by the Government; and two by the General Council of the Judiciary, for three-fifths majority of its members.

Meeting of the Board of Government of the Supreme Court and the Plenum of the Constitutional Court. EFE

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