The veto of the PP that the judge José Ricardo de Prada enters as a member of the new General Council of the Judicial Power (CGPJ) has been, as confirmed by popular and socialists, the trigger for the rupture of the agreement to renew the body, whose mandate It expired in December 2018. The judge who, together with another magistrate, accepted Mariano Rajoy’s statement requesting the popular prosecution as a witness in Gürtel’s first trial became the main stumbling block in the negotiation, but it has not been the only name that it has strained conversations to failure.