The Government and the PP devoted themselves this Friday to blaming each other for the reasons for the breakdown of the negotiations to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). In December it will be four years since the mandate of that body that regulates judges has expired, a situation that has been denounced by the European Commission on several occasions. With this new clash, the internal balances of the CGPJ will continue to be those that were decided with the absolute majority of the popular Mariano Rajoy, in 2013.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez feijoojustified on Thursday his decision to suspend talks with the Executive by the will of Pedro Sanchez to reform the sedition crimeto reduce prison sentences. This is a commitment that Sánchez began to say that he would fulfill in 2020 and that now, with the negotiation of the State’s general budgets, ERC has recovered and has put it back on the table. Feijóo dribbled this obstacle for days until on Thursday he used it as the main argument for the (new) divorce from Sánchez. They are thus left without the only reason for communication between the Executive and the main opposition party. Again, there is no open road between Moncloa and Genoa.
The State pacts “will come with this PP and with another PSOE”, says Feijóo
The conservative leader also warned that those who they await great state pacts In this difficult economic context due to the war in Ukraine and post-pandemic They have to stay seated. Those agreements “will come with this PP and with another PSOE,” he said at a ceremony in Vitoria, implying that Sánchez from the socialist general secretariat must fall first. If there was something miraculous about the Moncloa Pacts The fact that the leaders of the PP lie so much is that agreements were reached between politicians who were at the opposite end of the spectrum.
“Negotiate with constitutionalists in the morning and agree otherwise in the afternoon with independentists, I understand that a Prime Minister cannot cover both things, he has to decide,” Feijóo declared. The popular protesters claimed in Thursday’s rupture statement that the PSOE must give “sufficient guarantees” that he is not going to reform the crime of sedition if he wants to renegotiate the CGPJ.
The call
The PP leader made the decision to suspend the talks after talking on the phone with Sánchez mid-afternoon on Thursday and verify that the head of the Executive maintained his commitment to modify the Criminal Code to “standardize” the penalties of some other European countries that have lower penalties.
Stephen Gonzalez Ponsthe negotiator for the PP, had already advanced the days before his interlocutor Félix Bolanosthe Minister of the Presidency, that they did not feel comfortable agreeing to the CGPJ while the media filled dozens of pages of the press and many hours of television with sedition.
reassuring messages
Bolaños, according to sources from the minister’s team, tried to reassure Pons by emphasizing that “there was nothing new”, that the “accounts” of seats that the journalists put in their chronicles about the supposed vote to approve the reform of the Penal Code were castles in the air and nothing more. However, it was not enough. According to the PP, the lack of “guarantees” from Sánchez to Feijóo, more pressure from some conservative media against the agreement and the arguments he gave Isabel Diaz Ayuso Thursday morning, they took him to break.
EL PERIÓDICO announced on Friday that the president of Madrid spoke with the leader of the party to tell him that she could not continue disassociating the agreement of the judiciary from the debate on sedition. That thesis was the one that the main positions of the PP (Cuca Gamarra and Elias Bendodo) and Juanma himself Darkthe baron closest to Feijóo, had been defending until the day before to safeguard the pact, and she was against it.
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Ayuso insisted that the approach to a Sánchez who speaks openly about cutting a crime that could benefit those who fled the ‘procés’ would harm the party at the polls. Next year there are municipal, regional and general. The leadership of the PP, after the revelation of the conversation, tried dissolve Ayuso’s influence and assured Europa Press that he also spoke on Thursday with Moreno himself (Andalusia), Fernando López-Miras (Murcia), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (Castilla y León) and Alfonso Wheel (Galicia).
Bolaños lamented that the “reactionary right” has “doubled the pulse” of Feijóo. In Genoa, for their part, they believe that the one who has wanted to “dynamite the dialogue from within” has been Sánchez himself due to “pressure from United We Can, ERC and the three judge ministers.” The popular ones refer to Pilar lol (Justice), Margaret Oak trees (Defense) and Fernando Great-Marlaska (Interior) they do not like that within the CGPJ agreement independence is reinforced and those who have held political positions are forced to spend two years on leave before returning to court, something that the three categorically deny, reports Angeles Vazquez.