2023-07-19 13:22:28
The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has announced this Wednesday that the conservative member Vicente Guilarte will assume the presidency of the governing body of judges tomorrow after the departure of Rafael Mozo due to retirement. In a brief note, the Council has given an account of the relief. Sources from the body have later confirmed that Guilarte has resigned from his job as a lawyer and university professor, a private activity incompatible with the position of president.
In the Council there was a special interest in making it clear from the beginning that the new president would not continue with his activities as a practicing lawyer and his teaching work as a professor of civil law. Both occupations cannot be carried out in parallel to the presidency of the Council, due to legal provision.
Six members had asked that Guilarte’s dedication regime be discussed and clarified. The Plenary, at the request of the affected party, has agreed unanimously and without the need for a vote that the position must be exercised exclusively.
Vicente Guilarte thus becomes interim president by replacing another interim president. Rafael Mozo had taken office last October after the departure of Carlos Lesmes, who resigned to protest the blockade in the renewal of the CGPJ. Mozo then replaced Lesmes as the oldest member, and now, upon retiring, he must be replaced again by the oldest member, who in this case is Vicente Guilarte.
Guilarte has been part of the CGPJ for almost ten years, the same years that this institution has been without having been able to renew itself. His access to the Council was related from the beginning to his good relations with the family of the former Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy. Guilarte was a lawyer from the Association of Registrars, the profession of Rajoy and other members of his family. He has always been placed in the conservative group of the Judiciary, but with a high degree of independence, for which reason he has often been described as “loose verse” without ceasing to be related to said sector.
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