Pons praises the lesson of "democratic resistance" of the CGPJ and urges the Government to withdraw its candidates for the TC

MADRID, 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Institutional Vice-Secretary of the PP, Esteban González Pons, praised this Wednesday the lesson of "democratic resistance" of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) that yesterday unanimously elected its two "professional and independent" magistrates for the Constitutional Court and it has urged the government to withdraw its two candidates for the High Court and appoint two who are "of the same level".

"Yesterday the General Council taught the Government a lesson and demonstrated that magistrates of whom we all feel proud can be elected for institutions by which we all have to feel protected (...) The CGPJ has given a lesson in democratic resistance" , Pons has assured about the appointments of the bodies for the election of judges, at the same time that he has stressed that there was a third candidate on the table with zero votes, which was the one proposed by Sánchez.

In an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, the leader of the PP has denied that in recent days they have been negotiating with the Government so that the CGPJ plenary session could take place like this and has defended that it is an "independent" body that since the month of June it has resisted the Government appointing a similar magistrate for the TC. "(The CGPJ) has set an example that the Government should now follow by withdrawing the two members that it presented to the TC and presenting two candidates for the same level," emphasized Pons, who has pointed out that they should not be of "Sanchista obedience" .

Thus, he has assured that they have not influenced "absolutely" neither the candidates nor the strategy that this group of members have followed and has emphasized that "what there has been has been resistance for six months to name whoever gave them wins it through the Council for TC".

"I think that Pedro Sánchez has tried for six months at all costs to condition who the Council chooses and, finally, Pedro Sánchez has accepted the candidates proposed by those members who he said were blocking the renewal of the institution. Those who Those he has attacked are the ones who have accepted the Council's renewal proposal", assured the 'popular' deputy secretary.

However, he has pointed out that, although the controversy of the TC has generated "a lot of noise" since it has many political interests, but that "truly" there is a "delicate" situation in the Supreme Court and in the "kidnapping" that the Government maintains the CGPJ that prevents the TS from being renewed.

Asked if the PP would now be willing to negotiate the renewal of the CPGJ, he said that this will be "easy" when Sánchez frees himself from "moral slavery" with respect to the independentistas and Bildu. "It is very difficult for us to sit down to collaborate with the dismantling of the institutions and the Constitution," he added.

In this key, regarding whether the PP would be willing to support the Government if it assumes the initiative to modify the majorities so that a blockade is not repeated again, Pons has assured that "what the Executive intended to do is unconstitutional" because the Constitution says that the CGPJ elects two TC magistrates and the Government "was going to reduce it to one per member" and says that the TC is renewed by thirds and the Executive "was going to force it to be renewed by fourths".

"What the PP is going to do is change the law to return to a system in which the judges choose the judges and in which we choose independent professionals for all the institutions", has settled the MEP, who has once again urged the Executive to to return the powers to the Council. "It would be a first step", he added