Alberto Núñez Feijóo has decided to maintain for the new legislature the blockade on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary if the Government of Pedro Sánchez does not simultaneously accept a change of model in the election of members. Nobody in the PP is going to argue with the leader about that position, although in the party there are leaders in favor of renewing the governing body of the judges, who are surprised that the PP is so resistant to the agreement, since if it agreed on the renewal with the PSOE would not lose an iota of its power in the council. The internal debate in the PP is plural, and there are also leaders who are committed to not reaching an agreement with the Government. Neither one nor the other will pressure Feijóo, whom the PP leaves a free hand to decide this strategy.
Important leaders of the PP privately recognize that it would be appropriate to renew the Council of the Judiciary for reasons of “institutionality and respect for democratic rules”, but also because there are “thousands of judges whose professional careers have been stopped” due to the blockade. And, furthermore, they draw attention to the fact that the PP was not going to lose its ability to influence the governing body of the judges with the renewal. This is so, these voices recall, because the council has to approve the appointments by a three-fifths majority, which implies a consensus between the members proposed by the PSOE and the PP for any appointment of magistrates.
The current of opinion of the PP in favor of agreeing and renewing the CGPJ recognizes, however, that the political climate makes agreements very complicated. A baron who believes in the need to reach State agreements admits that the context of the approval of the amnesty makes any agreement difficult, and considers that Feijóo, above all, has to “show himself willing” to agree, even if he does not do so later, so as not to be penalized for a non-constructive attitude.
In the PP, those most reluctant to reach an agreement with the PSOE also wonder if it would not be preferable to agree to the council than for the socialists to try to unblock the situation by means other than an agreement with the PP. This week, Sánchez has opened the door to explore the proposal made by the president of the Council, Vicente Guilarte (a member chosen at the proposal of the PP) through an article in EL PAÍS, which proposes removing the Council’s power over appointments of judicial and judicial positions. Supreme Court magistrates. With the via Guilarte That competence would remain in the hands of the judges themselves in hearings and higher courts and in a type of commission of notables made up of magistrates and other jurists to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court. The socialist president has, however, first proposed to the PP to form a working commission to study the possibility of an agreement. “To agree or not to agree is scare or death,” points out a popular regional president who distrusts the intentions of the Prime Minister, and who declines to comment on what Feijóo should do.
On the other hand, other PP barons insist that Feijóo should not agree on the council with the PSOE at this juncture, because the agreement would have more political wear than benefit. “Almost no one on the street knows what the Council of the Judiciary is, however, if we agreed, everyone would understand that we are sitting with the PSOE distributing the judges, and Vox and Podemos would be there to remember it,” reflects another president. autonomous community of the PP. The representatives of the hardline sector of the party clearly recognize that other decisions of the Government weigh in on the rejection of the agreement in the council. The last, the appointment as president of the Efe agency of the former Secretary of State for Communication with the PSOE Miguel Ángel Oliver. “Not an institution without being assaulted. As if to give them the CGPJ,” the deputy spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, wrote about this news. on your X social network account (formerly Twitter).
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Nobody in the PP is very clear about what moment would be most appropriate if an agreement was attempted. The immediate horizon is the processing of the amnesty law, but then, in 2024, a new electoral cycle arrives with the Galician, Basque and European elections scheduled for June. In the PP they also expect as a moment of maximum tension the return to Spain of Carles Puigdemont in application of the amnesty law, which will soon see the light of day starting in the spring of next year. The popular leaders most in favor of the pact therefore doubt whether it would not be more convenient to make an agreement this Christmas and get it out of the way.
Nothing indicates, however, that there is any sign of an understanding between the Government and the PP, and all signs seem to go in the opposite direction. This Thursday, the President of the Government proposed to the PP the creation of a “working commission” to study the options, which the popular ones disdained. The meeting between Sánchez and Feijóo is still pending, because the leader of the PP has agreed to sit with the president if he calls him. But despite the internal debate, there is skepticism in the PP that both leaders are capable of overcoming the obstacles and unblocking, five years later, the renewal of the council.
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