Montero advises the TC that if he admits the appeal of the PP, a "crisis difficult to solve" will occur

MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, has notified the Constitutional Court (TC) on Monday that if it admits the appeal of the Popular Party that asks to suspend the parliamentary processing of two amendments by which the election system is reformed and arrival at the TC itself of the two candidates that correspond to appoint the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), a crisis of "difficult solution" will take place.

"There had never been such an important attempt to violate our democracy at the seat of popular sovereignty, in the Congress of Deputies and, as I said, it would cause a crisis that would be difficult to solve and, above all, for the future it would mark a very serious precedent", assured the minister.

Montero prefers not to speculate on the possibility that the Constitutional Court admits the precautionary measures and trusts that the magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC) will not be subject to pressure in their decision this Monday on the Popular Party's appeal and that they also understand that they must ensure the reputation of the body itself.

This has been expressed in an interview on Radio Nacional, collected by Europa Press, in which he has admitted that the Government looks at this issue with concern as it is a crisis that is "unprecedented", at the same time that it has charged against the ' popular' for their eagerness to "try to control through these bodies what they cannot win in terms of democracy.

"I hope that common sense prevails because it would be a tremendous drain on all the institutions and I would ask the Popular Party to stop being permanently tense and permanently, instead of pitching in at a time like the present, trying to create bigger problems , greater conflicts", has transferred the minister.

Asked about whether the paradox could arise that the Plenary of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) activates the ordinary process that was planned before the reform that the Executive is now promoting, Montero pointed out that there are some who suggest that this could be a path and that "the procedure that they have refused to develop throughout the entire moment would be put into operation". However, the Minister of Finance hopes that everything will go by "absolutely" normal.

On the urgency with which the Executive has processed the reform, the socialist leader has admitted that it is "debatable" that there are certain rules that have more or less run in the parliamentary debate, but that these issues have nothing to do with the importance that It would have the fact that for the first time "the TC did not allow Congress and the Senate to develop the work that the Constitution confers on them."

Montero has insisted that the PP does not proceed with the reform because it understands that there are majorities that favor it: "It is obvious that they want to control political action through these bodies and, therefore, that majority that they understand now favors them and they are pressing to a point that does not have, well, any type of justification and explanation".

In this sense, he has stressed that the PP "cannot not comply with the law because it understands that the current one favors it." "There is no type of justification", has emphasized the head of the Treasury.

Finally, regarding whether they have explained this reform to Brussels, the minister explained that the Government has sovereignty when it comes to promoting the legislative project and, therefore, they have not transferred this issue. "What we are doing is taking these institutions that the Popular Party had subjected to renewal out of simple partisan interest," she concluded.