The PP is sure that the report on the Rule of Law of the EU in June will include the "total violation" with the TC

González Pons assures that Campo and Laura Díez must be "ineligible" because "we have never" seen a government enter the TC"

MADRID, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Institutional Vice-Secretary of the PP, Esteban González Pons, assured this Tuesday that the former minister Juan Carlos Carlos and the former director of Moncloa Laura Díez should be "ineligible" for the TC because "there is a total violation of the separation of powers and the Rule of law". Having said this, he has been convinced that this "total violation" will be in the report on the Rule of Law of the European Union that will be published in June and that "it will condition the Spanish Presidency if it is not avoided".

"We have never seen a government enter the TC," declared González Pons, shortly after the Council of Ministers approved these two government appointments to form part of the guarantee court.

In a press conference at the PP headquarters, González Pons pointed out that today is one of the worst days for the rule of law and the division of powers. Thus, he has said that the fact that people who have been part of the Executive are going to be part of the TC that "will prosecute the regulations of the Government that appointed them" supposes a "violation of the basic principles of the division of powers".

"We do not question their political affiliation, their ideological orientation or the trend that we may fear from their resolutions, until recently they have been members of the Government: they are co-responsible for the Executive's decisions and their appointment violates the separation of powers," he proclaimed.

Having said this, he has assured that the PP has "nothing" against them but "they should simply be ineligible for the TC" because in "no EU country would it be accepted that a member of the Government go directly from the Ministry of Justice or the general direction of Presidency to the TC". "It is a total violation of the separation of powers and the rule of law," he added.

When asked if the PP will act in Europe to prevent these appointments and will speak with the European Commission, González Pons has indicated that the fact that members of the Government become "directly part of the TC of a country is something that is going to be called the EU attention".

"It is not something that I need to tell Commissioner Reynders or Vice President Jourova or that must be aired in the European Parliament for it to be known", he stated, to be convinced that this "will appear in the report on the rule of law that will be published next June and that will condition the Spanish Presidency if it is not avoided".

Having said this, he pointed out that the PP can do "many things" in Brussels but added that he hopes they don't have to "do any". "I hope that we do not have to do anything in Europe because the Government is capable of rectifying this very serious error that it has committed", he concluded.