What are the laws on which the Constitutional Court has yet to decide?
Can the Constitutional Court, as it stands, resolve appeals on those laws?
Why hasn't it already decided, for example, on the abortion law when the appeal has been raised for years?
Do magistrates with expired terms have the same powers as other magistrates?
In this video, the professor of constitutional law at the University of Seville and analyst of the Public Agenda, José María Morales, answers these four basic questions about the operation and situation of the guarantee court.
The Constitutional Court adopted an unusual measure in a democracy on Monday at the edge of 10:30 p.m.: to paralyze the parliamentary processing of the legislative reform that unblocked the renewal of the guarantee body itself.
Thus, he endorsed the PP petition by six votes (those of the magistrates of the conservative sector) against five (the progressives) and suspended the process, only three days before the reform of the Penal Code was definitively voted in the Senate, in which the Government had included amendments to be able to renew the body.
Congress, the Senate and the Government have complied with the decision, but have shown their disagreement with it.
And the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, made an institutional statement on Tuesday assuring that they will adopt "the measures that are necessary to end the blockade."