The PP will take to the Constitutional Court all the legislative reforms that will be carried out in the coming days, whether in relation to sedition, embezzlement, or the reform of the law of that High Court to unblock the appointment of vacancies of magistrates. This is stated by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in a Twitter message, in which he accuses the Government of occupying the institutions with the reforms that are being carried out.
The president of the PP considers that with these amendments and amendments "the Government intensifies its attacks on the institutions and our rule of law against the clock", first with the abolition of the crime of sedition, then by introducing, through an ERC amendment, the crime of embezzlement, and now "the assault on the Constitutional Court", by removing the reinforced majority that is needed in the General Council of the Judiciary to elect the magistrates of the Constitutional Court".
"It is scary to think how far Sánchez can go at the end of the year in which anything goes," Alberto Núñez Feijóo continues in his Twitter messages, and for this reason he warns: "We will not remain silent in the face of this authoritarian drift."
And what he will do, according to his messages, will be, the first thing to "submit the proceeding unconstitutionality appeals", also, he says "we will denounce the takeover of the institutions before the European Union" and "we will repeal all those measures that leave the State unprotected". Specifically, Feijóo clarifies that "we will once again classify sedition and any form of corruption as a crime."
The PP considers that not only the modification of the Law of the General Council of the Judiciary to change the majorities for the election of the magistrates of the TC, but also the reforms of the crimes of sedition and embezzlement, since that in the opinion of the popular ones "a fraud of the law" is being carried out, with "a reform of the Penal Code that has names and surnames", it is an "author's Penal Code", and that goes against "equality of the Spaniards" protected by the Constitution, according to the spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress and general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra.
The number two of the PP considers that with these very substantial reforms, through amendments, and with an express procedure that prevents the debate and that the parliamentary groups play their role. "We are not before legislators, but before a marketing with the law, which is what Parliament is turning into" and also with a single objective, "that Sánchez remains in power."
As the president of the PP has already done, Cuca Gamarra stressed that Pedro Sánchez "has no limits in order to maintain power", and he does so "materializing the assault on the rule of law". For the PP, the problem is not that ERC wants its leaders to "go unpunished", but rather that "Sánchez cede" by creating a Penal Code for the benefit of its members, to which it adds a reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary "to control the Constitutional Court by the Government".
That is why the PP emphasizes that "we are not going to remain silent, because it is not a question of right or left, but of submission to the law of public powers." For this reason, if they verify that it is feasible by their legal services, they will take all the reforms to the Constitutional Court, knowing that the resolution of the High Court will arrive late, and for this reason they also promise that if they manage to govern they will recover "the crime of sedition " and they will make "any form of corruption a crime again", since, in his opinion, "the Government is weakening the fight against corruption".
The PP will not be the only party that goes to the Constitutional Court. Vox will also do it, specifically with regard to the modification of the Law of the Constitutional Court. Vox will appeal the change in the Organic Law of the Judiciary proposed by the PSOE and Unidas Podemos through an amendment to the reform of the Criminal Code to modify the system of election of magistrates and unblock the renewal of the Constitutional Court (TC), which they will do through an amendment to the reform of the Criminal Code to modify the system of election of magistrates and unblock the renewal of the Constitutional Court (TC).
"We will resort to the TC yes or yes. Unity and democracy are in it," the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has advanced on social networks, in which he has warned that "the assault on the institutions of the autocrat Sánchez accelerates with the support of his separatist partners". For the Vox leader, these amendments mean an "amnesty for coup plotters and corrupt people", in addition to "a blow to art. 159.3 CE to assault the TC with their accomplices".
According to Vox, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, "imposes his totalitarian roller to stabilize power: reform of sedition and embezzlement, assault on the Judiciary and assault on the TC." For this reason, he believes that "there is no room for moderation or negotiation with this government" and that "it is only possible to resist, defeat them and vote massively against them."
After his Twitter messages, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, solemnly, in his office, with the Spanish flag on one side, summoned the rest of the opposition, but in reality he was addressing Núñez Feijóo, to raise a motion of censure. He did so in an "institutional declaration", in which he denounced "a new attack on the Constitution and the most elementary principles of the rule of law", with the "assault on the Judiciary" and "liquidating the last vestiges of the separation of powers in Spain" and directly threatening "the rights and freedoms of all Spaniards".
For Abascal, allowing the Government to "directly appoint two magistrates of the Constitutional Court, without the control by that court of the suitability and legality of those appointed", since one of the amendments presented ends the mandatory obligation that the High Court verifies the suitability of the names, what it is doing is "assaulting the Government of the judges", while violating article 159.3 of the Constitution that requires that the renewals be by thirds of its members", and of step, he says, "he places two of his accomplices" with the "exclusive purpose of perpetuating illegality."
Santiago Abascal raises a motion of censure outside the parties, as he tried almost two years ago and raised again barely a month ago. The president of Vox reproached the other opposition forces that then "made a partisan reading" of his proposal and expressed his confidence that "in this particularly serious moment, the sense of state will prevail."
For the Vox leader "the time has come to present a motion of no confidence" and for this reason he announces that he will initiate contacts with all the parties for the appointment of a "neutral candidate", which translates into a person "who does not militate in any party and commit to calling elections immediately, that will be their mission.
Abascal considers that the time has come to present this motion "regardless of what results" in the vote, but believes that it is necessary "to record the true acts and plans of Sánchez and his accomplices." A government, he said, "that reconstructs the wounded homeland and returns to the Spaniards the peace that was taken from them."
The president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, also spoke of a motion of censure, who does not want to refer to the Vox initiative, but does believe that it is advisable to present a motion of censure to end the Sánchez government, for which she also announced that will initiate conversations with all the parties, for its presentation.
