by The Association of Judges for Democracy (JJpD) denounced this Wednesday the absence of women at the presidential table at the ceremony to hand over offices to the 72nd promotion of the judicial career, which the king led in Barcelona.
In a statement, JJpD considers that the Judicial School and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) have shown a “zero commitment to equality policies” as organizers of the event and remember that, in line with the latest promotions, there are 119 judges and 41 judges. 60% of the race are already women.
At the presidential table of the event, the president of the CGPJ, Vicente Guilarte, sat next to Felipe VI; the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños; the attorney general, Álvaro García Ortíz; the president of the Supreme Court, Francisco Marín; that of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, Jesús María Barrientos; and the director of the Judicial School, Jorge Jiménez.
Seven men and no women, “ignoring the demands of equality and the reality of the judicial career and of society,” denounces the JJpD, which maintains that it is “unacceptable” discrimination.
“Not only is there a glass ceiling in the designation of responsibilities to women magistrates and judges, but in acts as significant as the delivery of offices in a predominantly female promotion, omissions are incurred that reveal the deficiencies and lack of institutional sensitivity regarding equality policies,” emphasizes the association.
