Díaz says that "the umpteenth excuse" of the PP with the CGPJ negotiation "is not credible": "It degrades our democracy"

MADRID, 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has assured this Thursday that "the umpteenth excuse" of the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with the suspension of the negotiations to renew the General Council of the Judiciary, is not credible (CGPJ) something that, in his opinion, "degrades" Spanish democracy.

In a message on Twitter, collected by Europa Press, Díaz recalled that the renewal of the Judiciary "is a democratic and legal obligation." "The umpteenth excuse of the PP, on this occasion, of Núñez Feijóo, is not credible", he has written on social networks.

For the second vice president, the "permanent blockade" that, in her opinion, the PP leaders practice with the renewal of the CGPJ "degrades our democracy."

The Popular Party has decided to suspend negotiations with the PSOE to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and has offered the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, "to address together any reform" of the Penal Code, among which it has included those that affect to the crimes of rebellion and sedition, as well as the criminalization of calling an illegal referendum.

This has been reported by the PP in a statement after the leader of the 'popular', Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had a telephone conversation with Sánchez to update the status of the talks for the renewal of the pending bodies and in which, the 'popular' have explained, the Prime Minister confirmed the reform of the crime of sedition.

In the conversation, according to the PP, Feijóo has criticized that the head of the Executive announced "wrongly" that the agreement to renew the governing body on Thursdays "was made" while "several relevant and essential issues for the Party were still open Popular". At a press conference, Sánchez announced this Thursday that the agreement on the CGPJ "is ready" in the absence of the PP "saying yes."

The resignation of the president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Supreme Court (TS), Carlos Lesmes, on October 9 -one month after he threatened to leave if there were no tangible advances to renew a CGPJ that has almost four years expired--, was the turning point for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to summon the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to a meeting in order to agree on an agreement to unblock the body of the judges.