Spanish General Council of the Judiciary blockade

2018–2023 Spanish institutional crisis
	; ; Headquarters of the General Council of the Judiciary
Date	4 December 2018 – present
Place	Spain
Cause	Termination of the mandate of the members of the General Council of the Judiciary; Lack of political will for the renewal of the CGPJ;
Consequences	Numerous vacancies on the Supreme Court of Spain; Limitation of the capacity of the CGPJ to make appointments; Resignation of the president of the Supreme Court, Carlos Lesmes; Delay in the partial renewal of the Constitutional Court of Spain;

The institutional blockade of Spain from 2018 to 2023 are a series of ongoing events that have occurred in Spain since December 2018 after the end of the mandate of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the governing body of the Judiciary in Spain and the subsequent blockade of the renewal of the body by the political parties represented in the Spanish Parliament (Cortes Generales).

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