The PSOE accuses the PP of leading to "a crisis in democracy" by delegitimizing the three powers of the State

Waiting for the Constitutional Court (TC) to decide on the avalanche of resources that it has raised, both to paralyze the parliamentary processing of the judicial and criminal reform promoted by Pedro Sánchez and to prevent its blockade, the PSOE charges the inks against the People's Party strategy.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
19 December 2022 Monday 07:32
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The PSOE accuses the PP of leading to "a crisis in democracy" by delegitimizing the three powers of the State

Waiting for the Constitutional Court (TC) to decide on the avalanche of resources that it has raised, both to paralyze the parliamentary processing of the judicial and criminal reform promoted by Pedro Sánchez and to prevent its blockade, the PSOE charges the inks against the People's Party strategy. "It can generate an unprecedented crisis in democracy," warned Minister Pilar Alegría, as spokesperson for Ferraz's executive. "The PP's strategy is very serious and does irreparable damage to our country's democracy," she warned.

It all started in 2019, as he has assured, after general elections that revalidated the position of Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government. The citizens, Alegría has pointed out, kept the PSOE leader in Moncloa and, at the same time, sent the PP to "the opposition benches". But before Pablo Casado and now Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as the minister has criticized, "they did not accept or acknowledge the defeat of the PP", and they clung to the delegitimization first of the President of the Government, "from minute one", then also of the Council General of the Judiciary, by preventing its renewal for four years, and now also of the Congress and the Senate, by trying to have the TC paralyze the parliamentary process of the judicial and penal reform. The PP, according to Alegría, thus tries to "delegitimize the three powers of the State."

"The pressure to which the PP is subjecting the three powers of the State is very serious and it is a very dangerous path," warned the PSOE spokesperson. "The PP has embarked on a journey that not even they themselves know where it will end," she insisted. However, the minister did not want to venture what could happen if the TC finally paralyzes this parliamentary process. "As a Democrat, I cannot and do not want to imagine that scenario, I do not contemplate it," she has argued.

Minister Alegría, on the other hand, has assured that the latest statements by the ERC leaders in favor of a referendum on self-determination, who want to start negotiating at the dialogue table between governments before the end of this year, "are the result of of overacting”. In her opinion, "the process has ended", thanks to the government's agenda for dialogue and negotiation. But Executive sources insist on ruling out a new meeting of the dialogue table before the end of this course. "There is nothing. This independence referendum is not going to take place in any case. It is not constitutional and this government will never accept it ”, she has settled.