So far in 2022, the resignation of the opposition leader, the attorney general, the president of the CGPJ and that of the State Council has been claimed
If there is something that has traditionally been attributed to those who hold positions of responsibility in our country, it is how difficult it has always been for them to step back and resign from their positions. But this year he has chained a series of resignations with enough relevance to show the fragility in which the political and institutional atmosphere seems installed. The first resignation of significance this 2022 occurred in February, when the war unleashed in the PP between the national leadership of the party and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz-Ayuso, caused the abrupt departure of the then president, Pablo Casado. Whoever replaced Mariano Rajoy in Genoa in the summer of 2018 – after the motion of censure won by Sánchez – struggled to remain as leader of the opposition, but the rest of the popular leaders, especially the territorial barons, took advantage of their confrontation with Ayuso to hit him a final blow. The Galician president, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, replaced him at the head of the PP.
Four months later, in July, the then Attorney General of the State, Dolores Delgado, resigned, citing health reasons for having undergone a severe operation on her spine in April. A career prosecutor, Delgado had arrived at the Public Ministry in February 2020 from the Ministry of Justice, to which Sánchez raised him; a movement that unleashed strong criticism of the Government and that upset a good part of the judicial career. His period has not been without controversy, with his appointment policy being the aspect that has earned him the most questioning.
Until three weeks ago, the president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Carlos Lesmes, resigned on Monday, October 10, after announcing it in an unusual video the night before. Days later, the extraordinary plenary session of the CGPJ elected the progressive Rafael Mozo as interim substitute –against the criteria of Lesmes–, while in the Supreme Court the one who has taken the reins has been the president of the oldest Chamber, Francisco Marín Castán. The idea of the resigned president was that Marín Castán was also the one who presided over the CGPJ and to avoid bicephaly, but the anger of the members –who finally chose Mozo when considering, among other things, that it was not Lesmes’s task to choose the successor– , made it impossible.
María Fernández de la Vega, for her part, has been the last position to resign for now from a position of high institutional responsibility. The one who was Vice President of the Government in the mandate of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had become in 2018 the first woman to chair the consultative body. De la Vega resigns after fulfilling her commitment to Sánchez and remaining as a director for life.
Thus, three State institutions have had to face the departure of their highest authorities. But the list is even broader if we look at partisan charges. The former deputy general secretary of the PSOE Adriana Lastra resigned in July arguing that she needed “tranquility and rest” due to “her high-risk pregnancy.” Macarena Olona, for her part, resigned from her seats in Vox, also alleging health reasons after her bump as a candidate for the Junta de Andalucía. Barely a month later, she returned to the fray and asked to meet with the leader of the right-wing formation to assess a possible reinstatement. Something that did not occur and that caused the beginning of hostilities between one and the other.
Luis Garicano, formerly of Ciudadanos, is another casualty in the political sphere. With his departure, in the midst of a crisis of identity and future, the orange formation has lost one of the few leaders that remained from the origins under the leadership of Albert Rivera.
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