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Members of the Council of the Judiciary, attended by its president, Gonzalo Moliner , also president of the Supreme Court; and the CGPJ spokesperson, Gabriela Bravo . Prosecutors identified only a few, one of them, already retired, Eduardo Martínez Zato , who came with a cane. The president of the National Court, Ángel Juanes , was not present, nor was the former State Attorney General, Cándido Conde Pumpido (who has competed with Juan Antonio Xiol to enter the TC), although his wife was. The rest of the attendees belonged mainly to the legal field , although there were some informants, such as two journalists from the Efe agency , who, however, were not in an informative role. Ledesma, Sala and Freemasonry Ignacio Sierra , former president of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court, took the floor first , in a concise manner and to introduce the tribute. Next, as the main speaker, Fernando Ledesma spoke , Minister of Justice in 1982 (he was appointed by Felipe González), with the image of a moderate politician and who introduced abortion in Spain in 1985 . Later he was president of the Council of State , magistrate of the Supreme Court and president of the third section of the Third Chamber of Contentious-Administrative Matters. Currently a permanent advisor to the Council of State, Ledesma, together with former vice president María Teresa Fernández de la Vega , sponsored José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero upon his entry into the Council of State.
In 2009 he was elected president of the Royal Foundation of Toledo, replacing Gregorio Marañón Bertrán de Lis , a foundation in which, among others, Javier Krahe and the Archbishop of Toledo, Braulio Rodríguez , appear as trustees . At the tribute to Special Database
Pascual Sala, Ledesma gave a long speech (rated 'award-winning' by some of the attendees), talking about Pascual Sala and the aspects of his personality with which he coincides. He alluded, for example, to his deep love of bullfighting . It was then when he made the most striking statement: I agree with Pascual on three things, the third our common membership in Freemasonry . The Supreme Court until 1940 Francisco Navarrete Casas then spoke , a person with little public projection and hardly any presence in the media. He is a lawyer, he has an office on Paseo de la Castellana , and his specialties include labor law and air navigation: he wrote a book on the latter subject. He has been secretary of the Board of Directors of Iberia and executive director of the Aequitas Foundation , promoted by the General Council of Notaries to improve the legal protection of groups in need of special protection. The sources consulted by ECD cannot confirm exactly the reason for his presence and such a prominent intervention in the tribute to the president of the outgoing Constitutional Court.
According to these sources, Francisco Navarrete alluded to the fact that, with the arrival of Pascual Sala to the presidency of the Supreme Court, in November 1990, the Masonic symbols were recovered in the high court . He also commented that until 1940 all the presidents of the Supreme Court had been Masons. Pascual Sala neither comments nor denies In view of the references heard, and especially Fernando Ledesma 's statement about belonging to Freemasonry , it seemed logical that the honoree would make some allusion to those comments. However, Pascual Sala, in his speech to those attending the tribute, did not refer to such matters at all: he did not allude to Freemasonry , nor did he deny his membership in it. In her speech, she criticized, although without excessive acrimony, the delay that had occurred in the renewal of the Constitutional Court , as well as the lack of women in the major instances of Justice: in TC there are only two, out of a total of twelve magistrates. . As ECD reported, Pascual Sala said goodbye to the presidency of the Constitutional Court approving, thanks to his casting vote, that the Church cannot create universities , despite the fact that this is recognized in the Spain-Holy See Agreements . Tickets for a bullfight in Nîmes Given Pascual Sala's love for bullfighting, and his admiration for the bullfighter José Tomás , in the tribute at the Madrid Casino he was given a photo of José Tomás, as well as two tickets (for him and his wife) for a bullfight in Nimes (France) in which the Spanish bullfighter was going to be the star. The retirement of the until now president of the Constitutional Court has motivated other tributes, these public and with light and stenographers, like the one they are promoting from Valencia , where Pascual Sala is from. They are organizing a surprise lunch , and for them, telephone calls are made to the high judicial authorities to close dates.