Inmaculada Montalbán, Margarita Robles' squire who supports the amnesty

MadridThe media attention surrounding the president of the Constitutional Court (TC), Cándido Conde-Pumpido, whom the right presents as an emissary of Moncloa at the head of this body, means that other prominent members, such as Inmaculada Montalbán (Iznalloz, Granada, 1959), who is still a president, are going unnoticed. And who knows if she will take over in a few months, considering that Conde-Pumpido will end his term in 2026. She would be the second woman after María Emilia Casas (2004-2011). "For me, she's the one with the power in the TC. Conde-Pumpido listens a lot to her. For these tasks, you have to be very focused on your personal, family, and professional life. And she's got everything in place," a legal source who has known Montalbán closely told ARA.

A person who coincided with her at the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) between 2008 and 2013 highlights her closeness to Margarita Robles, who was also a member of the governing body of the judges during that period and now Minister of Defense. Both were members of Judges for Democracy—the association close to the PSOE—and were the ones who held the power in the progressive sector of that CGPJ. Robles was the one who negotiated with the leader of the conservative bloc, Manuel Almenar, a moderate profile within the right, which allowed the CGPJ's Observatory against Gender Violence to be strengthened, which Montalbán chaired. Specializing in issues of gender-based violence, she is now the rapporteur for the ruling that will endorse the amnesty from the Constitutional CourtPerhaps even more controversial was his ruling on the EREs, which exonerated Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán, a president who had awarded him the Medal of Andalusia in 2012.