Overview
- - A five-member LIBE delegation met Spain’s judicial council to ask about compliance with GRECO and Venice Commission recommendations, discretionary appointments, and perceived politicization.
- - At the Constitutional Court, leaders including Cándido Conde-Pumpido were questioned on the court’s handling of the Amnesty Law, upheld last June, pending procedures on its application, and ties with the Supreme Court.
- - Delegation members highlighted concerns relayed about attacks on judges and attempts to delegitimize the judiciary, with discussion also touching on the conviction of former attorney general Álvaro García Ortiz.
- - Socialist MEP Alessandro Zan criticized the visit as politically selective after a planned parallel evaluation in Italy did not proceed.
- - Magistrates from the court’s conservative minority said they were not informed of the meeting and warned that any account would not reflect the full court.