Sánchez lowers the "urgency" of the reform that seeks to renew the TC if the CGPJ elects its candidates today

It does not rule out that reforms will be promoted in Congress that prevent blockade situations such as those experienced in the future.

MADRID, 27 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government has indicated this Tuesday that if the members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) reach an agreement this afternoon to elect their two candidates for the Constitutional Court (TC), the urgency to present a bill that reforms the system and the majorities required for those appointments "would not be the same.

In any case, in the press conference after the last Council of Ministers of the year, Sánchez explained that the blockade that has occurred within the Judiciary has been "unprecedented in a democracy" and therefore this "perhaps would justify (...) making some reforms that prevent them from being produced in the future".

However, the President of the Government has recalled that they have already given a deadline to the CGPJ to choose their two names, which must go to the partial renewal of the TC together with the two from the Government --Juan Carlos Campo and Laura Díez--, and which expired in September.

Thus, it opens the door for this reform, which was introduced via amendment to the bill that suppressed the crime of sedition and that the TC cautiously vetoed, not be presented again as a bill urgently. "The urgency would not be the same," he clarified.

Despite this, he has stressed that "if anything has become clear over these years, it is that when the PP is in opposition, blockades occur", and he has left the possibility of making reforms in the hands of the parliamentary groups that prevent situations like the one suffered this December from happening again.

"These blockades erode the institutions and make it difficult for democracy to function properly in a body as important as the General Council of the Judiciary," he explained.