The General Council of the Judiciary was set out in the 1978
Constitution (Article 122), following the model of other
neighbouring countries such as France, Portugal, and Italy, in
particular. Its creation was then a true innovation of the
Spanish constituent, since it is impossible to find any direct
precedent in our history of an autonomous government organ of
the Judiciary which guarantees the independence thereof. In the
history of Spain, there are some remote precedents of
institutions and attempts to create an organ which would
guarantee the auto-government of the Judiciary, at least
partially, however, none of these attempts had the same nature
and aim as the General Council of the Judiciary. Especially
because an organ of such type only finds its true raison d'être
within a democratic system, based on the separation of powers
and the effective protection of the fundamental rights and
freedoms of the persons. Among these remote precedents there are
the Central or Supreme Board (1849), the Organising Bo