The PP feels betrayed by the Government for the leak of the document signed by the previous leadership of the party to reform the law of the General Council of the Judiciary in order to renew the Constitutional Court and this Wednesday, through the deputy secretary of institutional policy of the party, Esteban González Pons has acknowledged the existence of a "secret" document that they rejected from minute one and has accused the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, of threatening to leak it.
"That document, like others, was put on my table by Bolaños the first day we sat down telling me that there were some secret agreements that accompanied the agreement that had been made public", González Pons acknowledged in an interview on TVE, and has added that they did not want to know anything about them precisely because of their secret nature. "This is the style of Pedro Sánchez or Bolaños, but it is not our style," said the popular leader, who warned that "our agreements will always be public and our reasons will also always be public".
González Pons explained that the previous management of Pablo Casado did not inform them that there was a secret pact but has emphasized the fact that the Executive made secret pacts, "kept them in the drawer" and decided to filter them now "I suppose not to favor the negotiations but to muddy them".
The leader of the PP has insisted that from the first minute they rejected these documents, they did not even want to see them and they transferred to the Government that with the new leadership any negotiation "would start from scratch". González Pons has assured that Bolaños accepted but put a but. "Someday I will leak these papers," said the popular deputy secretary who told him the minister. "Only you will harm yourself," he replied. He has also revealed that Bolaños then reminded him that he had been negotiating for three years. "I know, I'll start today, the negotiation starts from scratch," he replied.
Thus, González Pons has summoned the Government to "negotiate from scratch" to renew the General Council of the Judiciary and has said that the PP has set its public and acceptable conditions for the Government while recalling that the Constitutional Court is late of three months but that the serious problem is that of the Supreme Court, which has not been renewed for three years. "We must make a very big effort, from the State, to renew the Constitutional Court and the General Council of the Judiciary," admitted the popular leader, who after admitting that he has a good relationship with Bolaños has summoned the Minister of Justice to resign because in his opinion the Minister of Justice is Bolaños.
Bolaños himself has lamented that the PP is now talking about a “secret” agreement, when the document “was going to end up in a joint proposal by the PSOE and the PP in Congress”. “There is nothing less secret”, the minister has stressed in statements from Almería, in which he has also assured that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “is not to be trusted” because “he does not comply with what his party signs” .
Bolaños considers that from this "lie", the popular have entered "a carousel of cheap excuses and lies, of lies about lies to cover up the falsehood that Mr. Feijóo said in his interview." “First they said that the agreement did not bind them. Second, the Government never demanded compliance. About a dozen times we have demanded compliance from the PP. The President of the Government himself to Mr. Feijóo, and I, like on a dozen occasions to different leaders of the PP”, the minister pointed out.
Likewise, he has accused the PP of blocking the renewal of the CGPJ for "more than 1,350 days" in an "anti-democratic exercise" of "obstructionism" that prevents "institutions from functioning normally" and that "it is already affecting the reputation and functioning of justice and the judiciary”. "Therefore, what the PP has to do in the first place is to comply with the Constitution, comply with the law and comply with what it signs," he insisted.
