Bolaños says that Pons warned him that "never again" will they sit down to negotiate the Judiciary after their meeting

The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, reported this Thursday that the PP's Deputy Secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, warned him at their meeting on Monday that "never again" they will sit down to negotiate with the Government the renovation of the Judicial Power after rejecting the condition of the PP.

Pons conditioned the renewal of this body on the Government withdrawing the bill so that the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) can appoint the two magistrates of the Constitutional Court that correspond to it by quota or, at least, give them a period of fifteen days. This proposal was rejected by Bolaños in that last meeting with the leader of the PP.

"I sat down with Pons on Monday and I thought that we were seriously going to try to renew the CGPJ. He told me that there was one condition: withdraw a bill. Since when are conditions set to comply with the law?", explained the minister in an interview on TVE, collected by Europa Press.

Bolaños has assured that he told him that it was "unacceptable" to which Pons replied, according to the minister, "that they would never sit down again." "Do they intend to govern what the polls have not given them?", he questioned, while suggesting that perhaps the 'popular' want to return to the "Stone Age in terms of rights" and that "the advances ".

In this key, he has stated that they have not made contact since Monday with the PP in this regard. Of course, he has stressed that Congress is "sovereign" to guarantee the renewal of the TC in time. "We are adopting measures so that it is renewed on time," he settled.

Asked about the amendment that the PSOE has registered that gives the CGPJ a period of three months to renew the Constitutional Court, he has asserted that it is a measure to "expedite the renewal" and has defended that it is a "more than reasonable term".

In this sense, he explained that this amendment must be understood in a context in which as a Government they have 155 seats and, therefore, they have to negotiate the votes with the parliamentary groups.

On the other hand, he has reproached the PP for the "slap on the wrist" of the European Union and the Commission that "see very serious" the blockade of the Judiciary that "is leading Spain to an institutional crisis." Thus, he has blamed the PP for "reputationally the Judiciary is having difficulties at this time."