The parliamentary allies of the coalition government do not get out of their astonishment at the final turn of the negotiations of the judicial pact, with the slam of the door by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Despite the prevailing skepticism, they came to believe in the sincerity of the new leader of the PP to reach an agreement and put an end to the position of anti-system resilience of his predecessor, Pablo Casado. The most expressive was the president of the Euskadi Buru Batzar, Andoni Ortuzar, who called Feijóo yesterday "authentic irresponsible" for condemning an indefinite extension of the current interim of the Council and the Constitutional. "He loves his country very little," continued Ortuzar, who sees no relationship between the modification of the Penal Code - to adjust the crime of sedition to community law and avoid repeating the overinterpretation made by the Supreme Court in its sentence against politicians independentistas–, which is linked to the majorities available in Congress, and the negotiation of the obligatory renewal of the organs of the Judicial Power. “In a democracy, processes must be respected, and if in one area there is a way to review a type of criminal offense and find another fit for it, and a parliamentary majority in the Courts that supports it, democracy is that, get together, vote and the who has more votes decides”, explained the president of the PNV, yesterday from Tenerife.
From Esquerra, this last-minute refusal by the PP is not understood either, which in just under 48 hours said that the sedition reform was not a problem for the pact and then quite the opposite. The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, already showed his displeasure on Thursday with the allusion of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, to the Government's intention to carry out the reform of the Penal Code. For this matter, Esquerra had asked the PSOE during the last few days for discretion and prudence in public statements. The decision of the socialist minister to lay the rope at the house of the hanged man – the popular bench – did not respond to a demand for public clarity from the Republicans, but was an initiative of the Executive, which redoubled the pressure on Feijóo to sign the judicial pact which, according to the Government, was already closed.
Forgetting spilled milk, the immediate thing is to figure out what to do about it. Before President Pedro Sánchez makes a decision, the parliamentary spokesman for the confederal group of United We Can, Pablo Echenique, anticipated yesterday to propose a reform of the law that allows the renewal of the constitutional bodies to be carried out by absolute majority instead of of the current qualified majority of three-fifths in Congress, which would deprive the PP of the possibility of vetoing the renewal. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has not ruled on this option, which he rejected at the time when the then Vice President Pablo Iglesias proposed it, fearing that it would be frowned upon in Europe. Yesterday, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, avoided commenting on Echenique's proposal while the Executive weighs what its next step will be.
