The governing body of the judges of Spain, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), elected this Tuesday, after five years of interim status, the magistrate Isabel Perelló as president of the institution and of the Supreme Courtthe first woman in its history to occupy this position.
Perello, Judge of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Supreme Court and affiliated with the progressive association Judges and Judges for Democracy, won the vote over the also progressive Ana Ferrerwhose name was rejected outright by conservative members.
With this decision, the blockade to which the presidential election and does so two days before the opening of the Judicial Year, which will be presided over by the King, Felipe VI.
According to the law, The person chosen must have a reinforced majority of three-fifths of the members of the CGPJwhich is why agreement between progressives and conservatives is essential.
The CGPJ itself was in office for five years, due to disagreement between the socialists and the conservatives over the selection of candidates for this body, which must be elected by a reinforced majority, some of them by Congress and others by the Senate, so the agreement of the two main Spanish parties is essential.
The election of the members of the General Council of the Judiciary, who must be judges and jurists of recognized competence, became an argument in the political battle, which culminated on July 24 and this Tuesday its members elected their president, who will also be the president of the Supreme Court.
Isabel Perello (1958) joined the judiciary in 1985. Among other positions, she has been at the High Court of Justice of Andalusia (1991) and at the National Court (1994), after which she became a lawyer at the Constitutional Court (1993-2003) and in 2009 a judge of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court.
Following her election, the Minister of Justice, the socialist Felix Bolaños, said he was “very happy” because “for the first time in history, a woman will preside over the CGPJ and the Supreme Court.”
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For the Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, Perelló’s election is historic and an “example of equality and progress.”