The PP celebrated its political victory last night. In a statement he affirmed that "the rule of law has triumphed, today our democracy has emerged strengthened."
The popular ones presented an appeal against the reform of the Penal Code that also included modifications of the law of the Constitutional Court. This challenge was admitted yesterday by the Court of Guarantees itself in all its extremes.
The PP held last night in a statement that "the Justice has come to say that not everything is fair in politics, that the Government jumped all the red lines and that this type of excesses cannot be allowed in a democratic State."
The popular maintain that “The TC has not allowed itself to be influenced by the pressures of the Government and has protected the deputies of the PP. But he has done much more than that: he has defended all Spaniards and our rule of law from Sánchez's authoritarian and anti-democratic drift.
Already yesterday morning Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who in a speech before the national board of directors of the PP –the party's highest body between congresses–, stressed that "no matter how much they provoke me, no matter how much they coerce me", he will not give up on what considers it an obligation: "I will defend the pillars of democracy in the Constitutional Court, we will once again denounce what is happening in Europe and we will go where necessary to defend the Constitution".
Because in the opinion of the president of the PP, it is about defending the Constitution and the unity of Spain from the "risks" to which the Government of Pedro Sánchez is subjecting Spain, with continuous concessions to the independentistas, denounced the popular leader. This is how he interprets the abolition of the crime of sedition, the reduction of sentences in certain crimes of embezzlement or the modification of the form of election of the magistrates of the Constitutional Court through amendments to the Penal Code.
Feijóo said that "I am not going to talk about coups, because the democratic history of my country is very serious," he said, but that did not stop him from being very harsh with the Prime Minister.
"Sánchez is legitimately president, but what he is doing is not, in addition to being neither ethical nor reasonable", because "it puts the pillars of democracy at stake", which in his opinion "will have an enormous cost in terms of coexistence, wear and tear on institutions and deterioration of the international image of Spain”.
Despite "the insults" he receives from Sánchez such as "comparing us to Tejero" as the Socialists did in Congress, Núñez Feijóo assures that they will not move him from the moderation with which, he is sure, he has faced this situation, but neither of his determination to use all the constitutional mechanisms at his disposal to oppose "this political nightmare" that for the leader of the Popular Party will end "when there are elections."
Some elections that the PP demands and for which the popular president calls for "a resounding majority."
Feijóo describes, in this sense, a dramatic situation, and for this reason "it is not about choosing between Genoa and Ferraz, or between right and left". This time, he said, "they choose between this government or Spain, and to us, he concluded, we care about Spain." From there, he stressed, “no matter how much they provoke me from each other, I am not going to move. If they want a radical president, they already have him.
It is within this framework that the debate on sedition, embezzlement and the reform of the laws of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court to renew four magistrates should take place on Thursday in the Senate, before the Constitutional Court prevented it. .
55 amendments had been submitted to that proposal as well as five vetoes, which call for its return. These vetoes belong to the PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, JxCat and UPN.
In its veto, the PP warns that the proposal is "an attempt to liquidate the rule of law" and warns that it will appeal it before the Constitutional Court. For the PP, the amendments to force the renewal of the Constitution are "clearly unconstitutional", with the sole objective of serving the interest of the party in Government.
