“Before devotion, it is obligation,” Pedro Sánchez has demanded of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, using the proverb, to summon the leader of the Popular Party to unblock the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) after already serving five years with his mandate expired. “If you want to show that devotion to the Constitution, what you have to do is fulfill your obligation, which is to renew the General Council of the Judiciary,” the President of the Government has claimed to the leader of the main opposition party, to his arrival at the Congress of Deputies, where Constitution Day was celebrated today.
“At the beginning of this legislature, there are no more excuses,” Sánchez warned Feijóo. “It is time to fulfill with the facts the commitment we have with the Constitution, and move from proclamations to facts, put an end to the excuses and fulfill the mandate of the Constitution, which is the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary,” has emphasized.
The head of the Executive has used the position also defended by the European Commissioner for Justice, the Belgian Didier Reynders, that the PSOE and the PP must first renew the governing body of the judges, and only then, where appropriate, debate on a reform of the organic law of the Judiciary, to modify the system of election of its members, as Feijóo demands.
“What the European Commission itself has told us in a clear and crystal-clear manner this week is the need, the obligation to unblock the government of the judges, who have been in office for 1,800 days, with their mandate expired,” Sánchez reiterated, who He has accused the main opposition party of being “blocking and failing to comply with the constitutional mandate”, precisely since, five years ago, he arrived at Moncloa as President of the Government.
In the heat of the anniversary of the Magna Carta, and in reference to the PP, Sánchez has assured that "in the face of those who are giving lessons in constitutionalism every day or are beating their chests about how constitutionalist they are, to the detriment of others, what What we must always remember is that the best way to defend our Constitution is by complying with it every day of the year, and each and every one of its articles.”
“I urge the PP to comply with its constitutional mandate to renew the General Council of the Judiciary during this legislature,” he reiterated. And he has assured that he “reaches out his hand” to the head of the opposition, to reach an agreement. “If we carry out this renewal and comply with the constitutional mandate, we will be carrying out state policy and high politics,” he stressed.
Without great expectations, however, after listening to Feijóo in the statements that the PP leader made upon arriving at Congress – in which he accused Sánchez of promoting a “tacit repeal of the Constitution” and refusing to “ being complicit in the control of State institutions”, the PSOE have regretted that “he continues to subscribe to hyperbole, with risqué expressions and false statements”, in addition to continuing “castling in his blockade of the renewal of the CGPJ”. “The PP has been blocked for five years, without complying with the Constitution,” the socialists have criticized.
