The multiple electoral calls for 2023 would complicate compliance with the agreement this legislature | The PP assures that it has already agreed with the Government to increase the blocking capacity of the judiciary in the draft laws
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has continued this Thursday to be optimistic about the prompt renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, whose mandate has expired for almost four years. However, after attending a conference by the leader of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, Feijóo has said before the cameras that he wants the agreement with Pedro Sánchez include a commitment “written” to “modify the organic law” to “give more weight” to judges in the election of the judiciary.
“All the agreements that we reach with the Government have to be written, because, if they are oral, they are mere conversations. I do not know of any agreement that is not written, that is not signed, that does not commit the parties,” he declared.
The PP proposed last July that the new CGPJ that they elect now make a proposal to reform the norm. The Conservatives believe that it would be optimal for them to study the issue and raise their option within six months. In parallel, the Justice commission in Congress would also create a paper and would have to have its work ready in half a year. Afterwards, the change of the norm would have to be introduced in the Lower House, but 2023 is an electoral year, with municipal and regional elections in May and general elections at the end of the year, so the reform of this legislature seems complicated. Legal projects always decline with the call to the polls, so the commitment “in writing” may have a complex future.
For this reason, Feijóo has promised this morning to reform the law if he manages to form a Government after the general elections and in the face of the possibility that the Executive does not comply.
All with a three-fifths majority
Conservative party sources have also pointed out that the party leader and Sánchez agreed last Monday to modify the blocking capacity of the members of the CGPJ. La Moncloa has not wanted to comment on this matter and has asked for “discretion”. Until now, there are some decisions of the members of the judiciary that at the moment are taken by an absolute majority and the PP wants it to be made by a higher majority, in this case, three-fifths. If the Government finally accepts that request from the popular, the room presidents of the National Court, the room presidents of the High Courts of Justice, the presidents of the Provincial Courts and the bills they would also have to be three-fifths approved.
At this time, the agreements of the CGPJ are already reached by that resounding majority of three fifths in the case of the appointment of presidents of the Chamber and Magistrates of the Supreme Court, the president of the National Court and the presidents of the Superior Courts of Justice.