The Supreme Court does not elect a prosecutor, but speeds up the process. Although none of the shortlists obtained the necessary majority in the votes this Thursday, the magistrates called an extraordinary session for next Tuesday, exclusively for the vote.

The last thing that was known, after the last vote in February, was that the prosecutor Amelia Pérez managed to garner 13 supports and was very close to becoming head of the Prosecutor's Office. But within a few days a pall of doubt arose over her apparent imminent triumph.