The PP believes that Pedro Sánchez is carrying out an “assault on the institutions” and that he seeks to “control” the Constitutional Court. “The more the voters punish Sánchez at the polls, the greater his ambition to control what he did not yet control in the institutions,” the PP’s deputy general secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, assured today at a press conference. “He has thrown himself into control of Indra, the Constitutional Court and the INE, in four days”, he has denounced.

So, is the negotiation on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) up in the air? To what extent have the bridges been broken? “It was being negotiated,” said Pons, but the PSOE’s announcement that it will reform the law so that the CGPJ can exclusively appoint the magistrates of the TC when it is in office has marked a before and after for the popular.

Even so, they want to give the negotiation one more chance, but to resume they demand a goodwill gesture from the Socialists: if they withdraw the reform or expand the capacity of the CGPJ to make appointments in all cases and not only in the TC, the PP would negotiate.

“We would be perfectly legitimate to break off the negotiation. We are not going to do it. We have more sense of the State than the Government of Spain. That it withdraw the reform of the law that allows the CGPJ to elect TC magistrates or that it extend that reform to all appointments , and we talk again”, Pons stressed after the PP Steering Committee, at the national headquarters in Genoa.

“What is the point of the Government allowing TC magistrates to be elected and not the Supreme Court? It is a declaration of the Government’s intentions. It was not interested in renewing the CGPJ, it was only interested in controlling the TC,” he complained.

The PP is going to request “appearances” in Congress and open a debate on “Sánchez’s will to control institutions.” And not only from members of the Government, but also from “senior officials of the State who have a lot to explain.” In other words, leaders of the Sepi.

Of course, the PP plans to present its proposal to reform the CGPJ before the one-month term proposed by Alberto Núñez Feijóo expires. So, even if Pons did not negotiate with Minister Félix Bolaños, the document would negotiate in his place, ‘by proxy’.

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