The administrative body of Justice has expired its five-year mandate. In 2020, the Spanish executive proposed reducing the parliamentary majorities needed to renew the CGPJ, but withdrew the reform due to warnings from Brussels.
The spokesperson for the Spanish government, Pilar Alegriadeclared on Tuesday that it is the responsibility of the executive branch to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) after five years in office and warned that it will look for “new mechanisms” to do so if the PP blockade continues to exist.
At a press conference after the Council of Ministers, Alegría did not want to comment on the possibility of resuming the reform that the Spanish government had proposed in 2020 to reduce the parliamentary majorities needed to renew the CGPJ and which it had withdrawn due to warnings from Brussels.
‘That is still desirable agreement with the PPBut if there is a total and absolute determination on the part of the PP to block the renewal and not comply with the Constitution, they will have to understand that we need to study and evaluate new mechanisms,” he said.
Still betting on the agreement with the PP, he preferred not to comment on this “second scenario” of the reduction of majorities, but stressed: “the responsibility of this government is to renew the CGPJ and we are going to put them into practice. .”
The law currently requires that the members of the CGPJ be elected by three-fifths of parliamentso agreement with the PP is essential.
The Socialists and Podemos proposed at the time that an absolute majority in a second round would be sufficient, a proposal that this Tuesday once again registered the purple formation in Congress and that Sumar is the current partner of the governing coalition.
From the press room of the Moncloa, the leader of this formation, the second vice-president of the Spanish government, Yolanda Diazhas stated that she is “a fan of agreements and dialogue”, but recalled that she knows the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, very well, and that it is “very clear” that she has no desire to join the CGPJ renew.
“If I saw that the Popular Party was willing to reach an agreement and that it was in the interest of its country, then of course I would not get up from that table; but I am very clear that the Popular Party’s calling is to destroy the institutions in our country, including because it must control the executive body of the judges,” he assured.
Source: EITB
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