TWO UNBELIEVABLE FACTS AND SOME PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This article deals with the events surrounding both, the non re-election and the reelection
of the constitutional judge Fernando Cruz Castro, on November 2012. The event
was treated as an unprecedented and unique situation. However, in this article it is seen
as a conspicuous expression of our institutional order and our political system, which have
been shaped during the last thirty years, throughout the market opening process. At the
same time, it can be taken as an additional window through which we can observe the erosion
of the separation of powers established in the Constitution of 1949.