The CGPJ rules this Tuesday on Minister Bolaños' appeal against the controversial judge Peinado: the dismissal, back on the table

The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has on its table this Tuesday the appeal filed by the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, against the dismissal of the complaints he filed against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, the investigating judge in the procedure against Begoña Gómez. The decision comes after the governing body of judges already endorsed in July the closure of the proceedings opened as a result of the minister's complaints.

The proposal that the Permanent Commission will study involves rejecting Bolaños' appeal and maintaining the dismissal. Conservative member Carlos Orga is in charge of preparing the response and, according to sources consulted by 'elDiario.es', he proposes dismissing the minister's allegations. If the position already held by the Permanent Commission in July is confirmed, the complaints would be definitively dismissed through administrative channels.

The origin of the confrontation lies in the complaints Bolaños filed against Peinado for his actions during the interrogation he underwent as a witness in La Moncloa in April 2025, within the case against Pedro Sánchez's wife. The minister then denounced the "hostility" and "intimidating attitude" of the magistrate and questioned different actions carried out during the investigation.

Bolaños lashes out at the CGPJ

After learning of the dismissal, Bolaños appealed the decision and escalated the tone of his criticism against the governing body of judges. In his brief, he argued that the CGPJ had not acted with the required agility and rigor and reproached that "either due to conservatism or corporatism" it had not corrected the "irregularities" that, in his opinion, he had denounced "and thus restore the prestige and reputation of the Judiciary."

The minister also focused on the duration of the proceedings. According to his appeal, 427 days elapsed between the filing of his first complaint, in June 2025, and the notification of the dismissal, received on August 5. Bolaños considered this period particularly prolonged because the proceedings affected "very specific, perfectly identified and very easily verifiable actions" and argued that during the investigation "a very small number of investigative steps" were carried out.

The proposal that arrives this Tuesday at the CGPJ maintains, on the other hand, that the facts denounced by Bolaños are largely linked to the exercise of jurisdictional function and, therefore, cannot be subject to disciplinary review by this body. It also rejects that the processing of the proceedings has been unduly slow.

Bolaños already anticipated in his appeal that he did not expect the same body that agreed to the dismissal to now change its criteria. His strategy involves first exhausting the administrative route and, if the CGPJ maintains the closure, appealing to the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court. The minister maintains that this court "will do the work that corresponded to the CGPJ: defend and protect the good name of the judiciary."

This Tuesday's debate also occurs at a time of change in the procedure against Begoña Gómez itself. Peinado has closed the investigation phase and has ordered the opening of an oral trial before a jury court, while the magistrate is close to retirement.