Podemos rejects any role of the King in the crisis due to the "interference" of the TC: it lacks "democratic legitimacy"

It warns that it is not enough to renew only the TC and that the "ruling" of the Government was not to reform the majorities of the CGPJ before

MADRID, 23 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The secretary of the Organization of Podemos, Lilith Verstrynge, has affirmed that King Felipe VI does not have "democratic legitimacy" to position himself on the "serious" institutional crisis derived from the "interference" of the Constitutional Court in the "legislative power", and hopes that he does not make a "part" speech again as, in his opinion, he did on October 3, 2017 before the 'procés'.

In an interview with Europa Press and about whether he expects any mention of the King during his usual Christmas message to the suspension of the high court to the parliamentary processing of the reform on its renewal, he has claimed that the solution to this conflict corresponds exclusively to the Government and the Congress, in no case to the monarch, because they are the institutions that emanate from popular sovereignty.

Therefore, he has opined that although "it would be desirable for no one to have any doubts that he is against the right-wing movements in the country", as a "republican" he has little confidence in the monarchy and rejects that it launches any intervention, through their messages, in a matter that concerns the executive and parliamentary sphere.

And under no circumstances, he added, Felipe VI should incur in a speech in the line like the one he did before the 'procés', because his addresses have to represent the whole of the Spaniards.

As for whether he thinks that King Emeritus Juan Carlos I could return to the country, he has considered that Spain has "more important concerns" and that, from the "respect" for the institution that holds the Head of State, he perceives that there is a " bankruptcy of trust" with the citizen, as a result of behaviors such as that of the father of Felipe VI.

"There is a fundamental problem in the monarchy. Spanish society has been asked on many occasions to trust their kings and kings have shown on too many occasions that this trust was not guaranteed (...) It is a big problem that the people cannot trust who represents them, be it the emeritus or the current King", he launched.

Regarding his analysis of the precautionary suspension decreed by the TC before the reform of the body was voted on in the Senate, Verstrynge has remarked how "worrying" and "exceptional" is that, for the first time in the democratic history of the country, the legal power intervenes in the legislature, where national sovereignty emanates, to prevent a vote in the Cortes Generales.

An extreme that, as he has reported, can set "dangerous precedents" and that has to lead to the conclusion that the "set of the model" must be reformed for the renewal of the TC, but above all the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ ) with a view to getting the governing body of the judges to "assimilate" once and for all the current political representation of the chambers and their majorities.

What's more, he stressed that this episode suggests the "failure" of not having changed the majority system beforehand to renew the CGPJ and overcome the blockade of the PP, since this reform "perhaps could have avoided" this "serious situation", with a "breaking" of the separation of powers and of the Magna Carta itself. And before this it is necessary to deploy a "political response that is as democratic and urgent as possible."

Thus, the number 'three' of Podemos has assessed that the proposed law advanced by the PSOE is "a good starting point" to correct this drift, but has pointed out that the "problem is structural" and is not resolved only with the initiative limited to the court of guarantees.

Therefore, they have transferred to their partner that it must be "accompanied" by a reform for the renewal of the CGPJ, for which Podemos proposes to enable the path of absolute majority in order to designate new members, with the added requirement of inciting the half of the parliamentary groups.

Within this strategy, he has already summoned the forces of the investiture block with the idea, first, of sharing points of view and where his formation appreciates a consensus that the CGPJ must be unblocked.

In the opinion of the also Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda, the TC order shows a "strategy" deployed by the political and judicial right for a long time, which is "basically trying to command" when it does not hold the Government or have a majority in the Congress to impose its "political agenda" through the courts.

"What we have seen in the TC is shameful", he reproached to review that two magistrates with expired mandates (President Pedro González-Trevijano and the member Antonio Narváez) who, by participating in the vote and not abstaining, have not agreed to give I pass the two jurists elected by the coalition government and representatives of the progressive majority that the Spanish have voted for.

He has also called it "quite surreal" which basically connotes a worrying situation: the "attempt to restrict the popular will" and "limit the laws" that come from the Executive.