The thoughts behind the words spoken by Esteban González Pons on Tuesday in Barcelona, at a meeting of the Círculo Ecuestre, where he described the Constitutional Court as a “cancer”, are shared by a good part of the national leadership of the PP, despite the rectification given a few hours later by the party's deputy secretary of institutional policy.
Both the number two of the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, and the spokesperson for the PP group in Congress, Miguel Tellado, questioned yesterday in separate statements the impartiality of the Court of Guarantees, due to the appointments that the PSOE has made to occupy the positions of magistrate.
The PP points especially to the one who was Minister of Justice with Pedro Sánchez, Juan Carlos Campo, now in the Constitutional Court, and also to Laura Díez, general director of Constitutional Affairs and Legal Coordination in the Ministry of the Presidency, first with Carmen Calvo and later with Félix Bolaños.
In addition, they also point to the president of the court himself, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, who was Attorney General of the State under the presidency of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
With these statements they directly accuse Pedro Sánchez of being “the first to have tried to politically contaminate the Constitutional Court”, in the opinion of Miguel Tellado, who considers that the Government has “colonized” him with these appointments.
In the opinion of the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, the composition of the plenary session of the Court – which now has a progressive majority after the years in which it had a conservative majority – “does not help the image of impartiality of the Constitutional Court.”
Both agree that this colonization "is normal to raise doubts about the impartiality of the Constitutional Court." According to Gamarra, “it is not the best way to guarantee the independence of the Constitutional Court, on the part of the Executive, when it has the responsibility of making appointments.”
Returning to González Pons' statements in Barcelona, the general secretary of the PP denied that the leadership made her rectify and assured that it was on her own initiative, which in her opinion honors her, because "we are not used to the fact that in politics one believes It is necessary to rectify when it is not fine.”
Gamarra maintained that it is very important to "strengthen and reinforce the independence of the governing bodies of the Judiciary, the Constitutional Court and other independent bodies that have important work" in terms of the "functioning of the separation of powers and counterweights, within of a democracy.”
For his part, Tellado stressed that everyone has seen, in recent months, that the Sánchez Government, “in a premeditated and continuous manner,” exercises interference in the Judiciary.”
Asked if the Popular Party will appeal the amnesty law before the Constitutional Court, which Pons questioned, the popular spokesman stated that his party “will appeal to all judicial instances and all parliamentary procedures” using “all resources” to “ stop the nonsense that the socialist Government is carrying out,” the spokesperson concluded.
