The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, considers the meeting of the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with fifty prosecutors affiliated with the majority conservative association, "very serious", for which he has accused of "maneuvering in the dark" with the General Council of the Judiciary.
Bolaños thus reacted to the information published by El País about a meeting that Feijóo held on May 18 at the Claridge Hotel in Madrid in which the leader of the popular groups reportedly informed the prosecutors that he would undertake an urgent counter-reform if he governs to, for a bill, to be able to repeal some norms approved by the current Executive, such as the reform of the crime of sedition. The prosecutors, for their part, would have shown, according to the newspaper Prisa, their support for the PP against the "drift" of the Government.
In statements to the media within the framework of the institutional act on May 2 at the Real Casa de Correos in Puerta del Sol, in Madrid, Bolaños asked Feijóo to explain the dinner he had with the prosecutors "of clandestine way". "What commitments did he acquire with a part of the Judiciary to repeal laws in our country? Why does Mr. Feijóo meet with people from the Judiciary?", he questioned, to criticize that the PP intends to "set Spain back a decade".
For Bolaños, "it is very clear why Feijóo cannot renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and he has not been able to do so with the Constitutional Court either." "What he wants is to continue maneuvering in the dark with the Judiciary," he has sentenced.
For his part, Feijóo has framed the meeting within normality and has pointed out that no type of political interpretation can be given to it because, according to what he said, he has attended meetings with other associations, as he knows that they have also attended meetings with that conservative association other political leaders.
The president of the PP has rejected that the dinner had a secret nature and has added that it was at the initiative of the prosecutors to whom he explained what his model is for the general prosecutor's office. He explained to them, Feijóo stressed, that for him "the independence of the prosecution" is basic and that he defends the "prosecutor's career."
He also told the prosecutors that his commitment is not to appoint an attorney general who has been sitting on the Table of the Council of Ministers, and that no one who has held a public or political position up to five years before can be an attorney general. Feijóo has added that after his presentation, the prosecutors asked him questions and expressed his opinions, with the same freedom with which he had spoken.
