Far from advancing along the lines of an agreement to renew the members of the General Council of the Judiciary whose mandate has expired, the Government and the PP continue to blame each other for the blockade, without moving from their previous positions. And that the EU Justice Commissioner left Madrid this Friday confident that there is a "real commitment" to renew the General Council of the Judiciary and then reform it, as requested by Brussels.
The PP says that it is committed to renewing the Council if there is a commitment by the PSOE that the judges will participate in the process of electing their governing body from the next renewal as requested by Brussels, while the Socialists urge the people to appoint the new members of the Council without further conditions.
After the visit of commissioner Didier Reynders, who traveled to Madrid to try to help unravel this matter, the government spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, asked the PP yesterday to unblock the renewal of the CGPJ "at once", and urged its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to get out of the "institutional rebellion" by breaching the Constitution. On Saturday, it was the general secretary and spokesperson for the PP in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, who summoned the PSOE to explain the reasons it wields for not modifying the election system for CGPJ judges. According to her, she said, the Government does not want to do it “because its only objective is to control the Council and the Constitutional Court”.
