"Many things have happened" and in the PP, "we don't trust Sánchez one bit", so that, no matter how much the Government says and the PSOE implores, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has no intention of renewing the General Council of the Judiciary, despite the fact that his mandate has expired five years ago. The spokesperson of the PP, Borja Sémper, made it clear yesterday that the PP will not give in. No, if its conditions are not met. The PP hardens its position and reaches the conclusion that, if the Socialists have been able to give in so much on the amnesty law so that Pedro Sánchez is invested, they can give in on the conditions of the PP to renew the Judiciary.
The new leadership of the PP opens with an issue that has dragged Alberto Núñez Feijóo since the time of Pablo Casado, and the popular leader returns to the toughest postulates of his party, the ones maintained by his predecessor.
The current popular president has no intention of renewing the Council if there is no legal change on the way members are elected first. He also does not plan to sit down with Pedro Sánchez to discuss the issue if there is no explicit commitment that he is willing to modify the rule.
The negotiations that the team of the president of the PP held with Minister Bolaños are behind us, when they were about to close an agreement that renewed the Council with the current law and at the same time considered a reform for the next elections of the members of the advice The repeal of the crime of sedition, according to the people, meant that, that time, in the end the pact was not completed.
Now the terms are reversed because the PP's priority is to "depoliticise" the body, in accordance with European guidelines, and for "the judges to elect the judges". They assure that the way in which Sánchez has been president changes everything. "If for seven votes the PSOE has been able to make a letter amnesty, I don't know why they won't accept, for the votes of the PP, a diaphanous proposal" to renew the form of election of the Judiciary.
So the five-year delay in renewal threatens to be longer. "Today, unfortunately, we are very far from it", confessed the popular spokesman, and that is why the position of the PP is that, "if Sánchez changes his position, we are prepared to deepen the renewal of the Council, if not, we will not sit down". Sémper assured that, if Sánchez calls Feijóo, he will not go if there are no previous steps by the Government, or the PSOE, for "depoliticization".
The PP is again based on the transfers made to Junts. "If there was no investiture until there was a written agreement with Junts", the PP is now asking for "a guarantee beyond words" that it is ready for this "depoliticization". For this reason, the populists now propose that "there will be no renewal of the Council if there is not a specific agreement signed first", and with the premise that the renewal "will be done with the new law", not with the old one. To support the statement, Sémper emphasized that "we will not put the fox to guard the chickens".
The PP presented itself in the elections with a commitment to strengthen the separation of powers, said the popular spokesman, and "we will fulfill it".
