Government and PP agree that the conservative Marchena preside over a Judiciary of most progressive
A magistrate more enlightened, Andrés Martínez Arrieta, will preside over the trial of the 1-Or
The canary islands Manuel Marchena, 59, you will reach the pinnacle of the judicial career, after four years presiding over the delicate Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court. From this position he was expected to preside over the trial of the 1-Or and drew up the sentence, something that will not do.
The next president of the CGPJ and the Supreme Court is a prosecutor’s career and you will recognize a large category of legal. Despite being attached to the block conservative, his first position of importance was obtained from the hand of his countryman Eligio Hernandez, who, as attorney general of the State with a socialist Government named him number two of its Technical Secretariat. With the conservative Jesus Cardinal to the front of the office of the Prosecutor went up a step more, to be the head of that body of advice. He left the post with the arrival of Cándido Conde-Pumpido, who has always been faced.
In 2014, when both Marchena as Conde-Pumpido were already judges of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme, vied for the Presidency of that Room. By 11 votes, as opposed to seven, Marchena won the support of the CGPJ which, in brief, will preside.
From his place of president of the Criminal Chamber, Marchena headed the trial of the former consellerFrances Homs by the previous query illegal independence, the 9-N, held in 2014. The sentence, of which he was speaker, he imposed a penalty of 13 months of disqualification, away from the 10 claimed by the Prosecution but in line with what is dictated by the Upper Court of Justice of Catalonia with respect to other courts by those events (Artur Mas, Joana Ortega and Irene Rigau).
the Presidency of The General Council of the Judiciary is accompanied by the Presidency of the Supreme. Despite all of this, the new position implies that It will not already be part of any court (except for special cases of the call Room 61). According to legal sources, when it is named and has to leave the Criminal division of his office of president of the court of the 1-Or will the judge Andrés Martínez Arrieta, the oldest of the six remaining members of the court. This is a judge who is considered to be between moderate and progressive the founder in his day of the association Francisco de Vitoria. The output of Marchena will force the input of another magistrate in the court that will judge the procés. The order of seniority indicates that it will be the judge of progressive Susana Polo, who took possession of his place in the Room less than two months ago.
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