For the PP there will be no renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court before there is a new legislature and the PP wins, which is what they believe will happen, unless Pedro Sánchez renounces abolishing the crime of sedition and reduce the penalties for embezzlement, and approve a reform of the law on the Judiciary that depoliticizes both the Council and the Constitutional Court.
Shortly after the Constitutional Court gave the reason The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, raised these demands as a new offer to the Government to unblock the situation created, hours after the Constitutional Court suspended the amendments to the Penal Code that modify the laws of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court to choose the pending magistrates.
It is, as explained by the president of the PP in an appearance in Génova street, in which he admitted three questions, to distance himself from the president of the Government, who made a statement without the presence of journalists, of an exit that can put an end to the situation .
But it has conditions that the PP knows that Sánchez will not be able to comply, "that he renounce the modification of the Criminal Code, made in haste, without the corresponding reports", in what refers to sedition and embezzlement and also that do so "fulfilling what it promised", that is, in addition to renouncing that sedition ceases to be a crime and that those who have embezzled but have not enriched themselves have less penalty, the PP demands that "the calling of an illegal referendum "become a crime again. That and that he renounces "politicizing the Justice", which is achieved, according to Feijóo, by returning to the legislation prior to 1985, so that the judges choose the judges, and the Congress and the Senate only choose the eight magistrates who they are designated among jurists of recognized prestige.
"If this is not the case," said the president of the PP, which in his opinion would be "extraordinarily serious," the other way out is to "hold elections" and let the citizens decide. He is sure that the Spaniards will decide that Sánchez is not president, that he is, and then, he assured all that he is now demanding of Sánchez, he will reform the law of the Judiciary for the "depoliticization" of Justice, and he will reform the Penal Code to that sedition be sedition again, that embezzlement have the same penalties again, and that referendums be illegal. Then, he said, the members of the Constitutional Court and the General Council of the Judiciary can be elected.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo knows that Sánchez is not going to accept these conditions, he is clear about it, and for this reason he contrasted the affirmation of the President of the Government that he will do what he has to do to get the Council and the Constitutional Council renewed with the inverse affirmation: "I will everything possible to do the opposite."
The president of the PP has no intention of amendment and places all the responsibility for what happened on the Government and more specifically on Pedro Sánchez and his transfers to the independentistas. It also rejects the seriousness that the Government and its partners give to the decision of the Constitutional Court, because the pronouncement of the body of guarantees has only spoken "of the form, of the procedure", not of the substance, which will be another battle, which the PP will give .
But the "verbal escalation" of the Prime Minister and his partners does seem serious to him. "Enough of talking about coups," he said, "discrediting those who are not his allies" and calling them "conspirators and fascists." "Enough," he stressed, "of challenging the principles of democracy."
Hence, he asked Sánchez, "please" that this drift seems and to stop "the escalation of assignments to the independentistas", because what he is doing, he affirmed, "is not history", he said in reference to the president's statement that he would go down in history for digging up Franco, but that it is "dishonoring democracy", with decisions such as the one that has been challenged by the Constitutional Court, which he described as "cacicada that has no place".
For Feijóo, contrary to what the Government and its partners say, the resolution of the Constitutional Court "is not an attack on Parliament, but rather "a defense of the entire Parliament", which the Government has wanted to turn into an extension of its own. , does not restrict the legislative initiative of the Executive, because "it will be able to do what it wants, but through the regulatory channels".
According to the president of the PP, democracy has worked, and the institutions have worked, because "the Constitution protects all Spaniards from the Government" and in fact, he explained, the Constitutional Court is the only one that can repeal a complete law. Constitutional "has told the Government that you can not get out of the laws."
In addition, Feijóo showed his perplexity because "they have made it news that they are going to abide by the resolution of the Constitutional Court", and he wondered: "Could they not abide by it? Did someone from the Government think of not abide by it? ?", and that led him to affirm that the Spanish "do not deserve this institutional crisis" and that "political tension does not reflect how society is".
