The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, took his error this Wednesday with humor in the vote on the legislative reform promoted by the PSOE -which obliges the General Council of the Judicial Power (CGPJ) to appoint magistrates for the Constitutional Court before the September 13 – and said that “it is a relief to know that it has also happened to more than one president of the Government”.

This was expressed on his Twitter account, where he acknowledged that he had had “the bad experience of debuting in the large club of parliamentarians who were wrong in a vote” after supporting the socialist reform of the Judiciary by “mistake”.

“Today I had the bad experience of debuting in the large club of parliamentarians who were wrong in a vote. At least it is a relief to know that it has also happened to more than one president of the Government,” was Feijóo’s message, which closes with an emoticon of a winking face.

Among those presidents of the Government, is Pedro Sánchez, who mistakenly voted in favor of the abortion reform promoted by the PP in 2015, which, among other things, contemplated that minors under 16 years of age must request parental consent to interrupt their pregnancy.

“Anecdotal”, summary in the PP, which emphasize that Feijóo is “human” and his vote was not decisive, since it was approved with 147 ‘yes’ and 110 ‘noes’. In addition, they point out that two other PSOE senators were also wrong to vote against the counter-reform.

The leader of the popular party had joined the chamber minutes before, where the socialist group had criticized him for not attending the Senate debates.

“Where is Mr. Feijóo? Working for Spain”, said popular senator Fernando Martínez-Maíllo from the rostrum in response to the socialists

“You can tell when they mention how afraid they are of you. In a short time you are gaining day by day the trust and respect of many Spaniards, also of many socialists who are disappointed in you,” he added.

Beyond the controversy, the plenary session of the Senate definitively approved, in an extraordinary session, the proposal for an Organic Law to modify article 570 bis of the Organic Law of the Judiciary, which now enables the governing body of the judges to elect the two people who correspond to him to renew the third of the Constitutional Court that fulfilled mandate last June 12.

This law represents a counter-reform of the modification that the Government promoted a year ago to prevent the CGPJ from making appointments with an expired mandate. Now, with the norm already in force, the CGPJ must choose the two names that it proposes for the third of the Constitutional Court that it has to renew from the hand of the Executive.

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