Progressive magistrate Ana Ferrer has announced that he renounces the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, which leaves the other candidate supported by the conservatives, Andrés Martínez Arrieta, be the new president. Ferrer, who aspired to be the first woman to preside over the department, points in a letter to the inability of the blocks of the General Council of the Judiciary to “combine the necessary consensus” in favor of either of the two applicants. “The confidence of citizenship in their institutions weakens in the face of the appearance that ideological vetoes prevail over the criticisms of merit, capacity and balanced presence of men and women,” says Ferrer.
Sources from the CGPJ Progressive Sector show their disgust with the situation and hold Isabel Perelló, the president of the judges’ governing body, of what they consider an “injustice.” This situation, these sources add, suppose the “rupture” of the concept of “progressive advice” after the conservatives have finally imposed on their candidate, although Martínez Arrieta does not have a specifically conservative profile.
The presidency of the Criminal Chamber, after the end of Manuel Marchena’s second term, has been one of the most controversial places whose vote was in the hands of the new General Council of the Judiciary after his last renewal. The conservative and progressive blocks, with the same number of members in the plenary and with the presidency falling on the progressive Isabel Perelló, have renewed several tens of places in the Supreme and in territorial courts, but have not been able to agree on the renewal of the presidency of this Chamber.
A key room that, among other things, investigates, judges and sentenced. Only at this time it maintains open causes against José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán for corruption, against the Eurodiputa Pérez for illegal financing, or against the Attorney General for the filtration of an email from the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The end of Marchena’s mandate left two candidates: Ana Ferrer and Andrés Martínez Arrieta, the latter acting president.
The Plenary of the CGPJ has been unable to reach an agreement to renew the presidency of this Chamber. That vote has been taken from the agenda again and again by Perelló without the two blocks having reached an agreement. Ferrer’s decision is the path to Martínez Arrieta, the candidate supported by conservatives, be the new president. “I voluntarily separate the way for the other candidate, of unquestionable prestige, to which I offer my most loyal collaboration,” says Ferrer in the renunciation letter referred to Isabel Perelló.
Ferrer, a member of judges and judges for democracy, was the first woman to be appointed magistrate of the Criminal Chamber in the Supreme Court. He agreed to the high court in 2014 after six years presiding over the Provincial Court of Madrid. One of the symbols of women’s progress within the judicial career, its name has not only sounded in these negotiations to preside over the criminal hall, but even in previous years to preside over CGPJ itself.
The clash between both blocks of the Council has resulted in a new victory for the conservatives, who see how their candidate amounts to the presidency of one of the key rooms of the Supreme, although in this case it has been for withdrawal of the other contender.
Source: www.eldiario.es
