Today, Congress takes the first step towards the reform of the CGPJ and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, agreed by PP and PSOE

Today, the plenary session of Congress will take the first step in considering the bill that will reform the Law of the Judiciary (LOPJ) and the Statute of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in order to avoid the so-called “revolving doors” in the rule of law, strengthen majorities by approving judicial appointments and convene the new General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to make proposals on possible changes to the system for electing members.

This legislative reform, which is part of the pact of the PP and the PSOE for renew the CGPJ after more than five years of blockadewill be processed through the emergency procedure to approve it three plenary sessions in Congress and one in the Senate.

The bill was qualified by the Congressional Council on Tuesday, the same day it was published in the Bulletin of the Cortes. The Spanish government only took a little over an hour to communicate her agreement on what will be debated, and will pass the first exam in plenary session at 48 hours.

Once the law is considered, the factions will do the same until next Tuesday, July 9, to submit amendmentswhich in the case of full texts requires the presentation of an alternative text, as it will not be sufficient to request a refund.

He day 11 The full debate is expected to take place, the following week the text will be discussed in the Justice Committee and the day 23 It will be approved during the plenary session of Congress and submitted to the Senate, which could give the final green light. the next dayThis was reported by sources in the Senate.

The sum of PP and PSOEabove the two thirds of the roomsensures that they approve all votes in the various stages of the parliamentary procedure. In addition, they are committed No amendment shall be accepted unless it bears the signatures of both Parties.

Abstention from Sumar and criticism from Podemos

Sumar has decided to abstain from dealing with the PSOE and PP bill, knowing that the proposed measures are “correct, but insufficient”This has been indicated by sources from the plurinational group, also stressing that the significance of their vote is due to the fact that the pact between PP and PSOE does not leave a viable option to introduce amendments to “further advance” in measures of “democratization” of the state, especially in the legal field.

Podemos has in turn criticised the “course of the legislature” which the PSOE has adopted and which it accuses “deviating from the investiture majority” and “changing partners” to build a ‘grand coalition’ with the PPafter his “bipartisan” pact to unblock the CGPJ.

The purple formation has criticised the PSOE for distancing itself from the ‘mandate’ emanating from 23J and accuses the Socialists of seeking more pacts with the PP in other institutions, including the Bank of Spain, the National Commission for Markets and Competition or the National Securities Market Commission.

For Podemos: alliances with the PP “provides a path of slowing progress and austerity” and criticizes that the reform of the judiciary and the CGPJ in “two-fold key” It assumes that conservative members will have a ‘veto’ over relevant decisions regarding justice.

The purple formation has warned that this agreement between PSOE and PP is “particularly serious” due to the “reactionary judicial offensive” in recent days, with convictions of union members and the refusal of magistrates of the Supreme Court to enforce amnesty law to leaders of the ‘processes’.