The parliamentary spokesman for United We Can, Pablo Echenique, insists this Wednesday on the need to change the majorities in the Congress of Deputies to elect the members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) in the face of the umpteenth refusal of the PP to agree on the renewal of the governing body of the judges, whose mandate has expired for almost four years.
"There are two options: either the PP is allowed to carry out a soft blow against democracy, which is to keep the judiciary hostage for an entire legislature, or the majorities in Congress are changed to wrest the blocking minority from the PP," he has sentenced. Echenique in statements to TVE. "If someone comes up with a third way of working that is not one of these two, I am willing to listen to it," added the purple spokesman.
Echenique, who has attributed the withdrawal of the PP president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the agreement for the renewal of the CGPJ to internal issues of the PP, has described the blockade as a "flagrant violation of the Constitution that the PP intends to maintain throughout the legislature, a very serious blow to democracy and a discredit to the institutions of this country".
The purple spokesman has recalled that his formation and the PSOE already signed a joint initiative two years ago to lower the necessary number to appoint the members from three-fifths of the deputies to a simple absolute majority and has confirmed that this majority exists to carry out the reform.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, decided to paralyze it due to the objections of the European Union and as a gesture to the then leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, when he distanced himself from Vox in the motion of censure that this party took to the Chamber. Regarding the misgivings of the EU, Echenique has pointed out that "the recommendations are recommendations and are not binding."
To support his position, Echenique has pointed out that the investiture of a president of the government is done by a simple majority and that what his formation proposes is that the members elected by Congress be by a reinforced majority, such as the absolute majority. "We propose that it be done by an absolute majority, a reinforced majority that is greater than what is needed to invest the president of the government."
