The Government asks Congress to approve the reform in one day to be able to appoint magistrates of the TC

MADRID, 5 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government has asked Congress to approve next week, in the same Plenary Session of the Debate on the State of the Nation, the legal reform to be able to proceed with the appointment of the four magistrates of the Constitutional Court who finished their mandate in June.

In a letter collected by Europa Press, the Government requests that the Plenary of the Debate on the State of the Nation, scheduled between July 12 and 14, include the debate and vote on another series of legislative texts, starting with that socialist initiative of reform of the Law of the Judicial Power that will allow the expired General Council of the Judicial Power (CGPJ) to appoint two magistrates of the TC and that thus the Government can designate the two that correspond to it.

Specifically, the Executive wants an express processing of that bill that the PSOE registered less than ten days ago, on June 24, and that the Congressional bulletin published on July 1. He has already achieved the abbreviated procedure, which cuts all parliamentary deadlines in half, and now he wants it to be processed in a 'single reading', all in plenary session, without going through the paper or the Justice Commission.

The plan is that, after the duels of President Pedro Sánchez with the parliamentary spokesmen in the Debate on the State of the Nation, either on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, Congress will hold a first debate on the entire reform and that, hours later, the partial amendments are discussed and their approval is voted on. All this with the objective that the text be sent on Thursday 14 to the Senate, which will also speed up the process to leave it liquidated the following week and open the door to the renewal of the TC.

Of course, this express procedure requires the approval of the Plenary Session of Congress and so far only the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos have expressed their resounding opposition to the reform and its abbreviated processing.

And in addition to the legal reform to be able to appoint magistrates of the TC, the Government has asked to include in the Plenary of the Nation's Debate the validation of the anti-crisis decree approved on June 25 and the final debate of the Democratic Memory Law that this Monday was approved in the Constitutional Commission.