The last episode of the serious institutional crisis between the powers of the State occurred this Monday with the decision of the Constitutional Court to paralyze in the Senate the vote on the reform approved last Thursday in Congress for the renewal of the guarantee court itself.
The General Council of the Judiciary is renewed every five years.
The latest dates from 2013 when the PP governed with an absolute majority in Congress and the Senate.
The last four years have become a spiral of political blockades by the PP, the main opposition party, to renew the General Council of the Judiciary.
The members of the governing body of the judges have had their mandate expired all this time and have seen their president, Carlos Lesmes, resign last October, due to the failure in the renewal,
that depends on the will of the PP because the PSOE needs their votes to reach 3/5 of each chamber to approve the new composition of the Council.
This is the visual chronicle of agreements and disagreements between the parties with the largest parliamentary representation, the PSOE and the PP, and how they fight to impose majorities with a progressive or conservative bias in the high positions of the judiciary.
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