Bolaños affirms that the Government will be able to appoint the two magistrates of the TC even if the CGPJ is not renewed

MADRID, 1 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured this Wednesday that the Government will be able to appoint the two magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC) that correspond to it by quota even if the General Council of Power is not renewed Judicial, which must propose two other names.

On June 12, the mandate of a third of the 12 magistrates of the Constitutional Court expires and their appointment is shared between the Government and the CGPJ, with two members each. But the governing body of the judges is currently in office and therefore does not have the power to make new appointments.

"The Government could appoint its magistrates because it has the power because the Constitution and the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court establish it, it could appoint them," he pointed out in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, in which he assured that the The will of the Government is to renew the CGPJ.

In this sense, he explained that the way in which the CGPJ can appoint the two magistrates that correspond to the Constitutional Court is "renewing" precisely the body for electing judges and has held the Popular Party responsible for the "permanent systematic blockade".

"It is very serious that the main opposition party does not comply with the law openly," he criticized, while adding that if the 'popular' comply with the Magna Carta they will renew "the four magistrates of the TC as soon as there is a term" .

Bolaños has conveyed that he "aspires" for the PP to "come to its senses" because its blockade is "unconstitutional and illegal." And therefore, he has indicated that what must be done is "call them to comply with the law and comply with the Constitution."

"It is unacceptable that the Popular Party fails to comply with the Constitution and the law because it already leads us not only to verify this obvious fact, but to ask ourselves another question, which is because the Popular Party does not want to renew the government of the judges," he concluded.