Margallo sees a dangerous drift of the Government by depriving the right to debate amendments that touch the "nerve" of the State

MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former minister José Manuel García-Margallo has warned that when depriving himself of the right to debate amendments that "touch the nerve of the State" it is an "extraordinarily dangerous" drift and contrary to everything that the European Union has said and what the Commission collects of Venice of the Council of Europe.

In statements to the media upon his arrival this Monday at the Board of Directors of the PP, the former minister indicated that "he had already gone down a very bad path when bills were chosen to avoid the opinion of the advisory bodies that guarantee the solvency of the provisions that are approved", but now "depriving the right to speak and debate amendments" is a "dangerous drift".

In this line, he has emphasized that what seems "serious" to him is that "a devious path is chosen to attack the separation of powers." "That is what seems serious to me and a totalitarian drift with unforeseeable consequences," she stressed.

In addition, he has asserted that it is not "tolerable" that in a law that has nothing to do with other issues "propose amendments that do have to do with essential issues." "Here the reform of the Criminal Code is being used to modify nothing less than the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court and the Law of the General Council of the Judiciary, depriving deputies of doing what they have been elected for," he warned.

However, the former Foreign Minister has defended that it is "quite evident" that the amparo appeal filed by the PP responds to the desire to preserve the spirit of the Constitution and the separation of powers and judicial independence.