The PP opens to negotiate if Sánchez withdraws his reform of the CGPJ or extends it to undertake the renewal of the TC and the TS

MADRID, 27 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP's deputy secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, assured this Monday that his party is willing to continue negotiating with the Government the renewal of the constitutional bodies, but for this he must withdraw the reform that he presented last Friday so that the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) can appoint two members of the Constitutional Court, or expand it to undertake all appointments in office, both those of the TC and those of the Supreme Court.

In a press conference at the PP headquarters, after the meeting of the PP's steering committee chaired by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, González Pons pointed out that if the Government were really interested in renewing the CGPJ it would not "betray" the PP -- when As he has said, they were talking to resume that negotiation-- without "filtering" the legal reform that he was going to carry out to a media outlet.

Last Friday, the PSOE registered in the Congress of Deputies a bill that will be processed urgently so that the General Council of the Judiciary, which has been in office since December 2018, can re-propose to two magistrates for the renewal of the Constitutional Court.

González Pons considers it "absurd" that the Government "qualifies" the CGPJ for a renewal of the TC that "interests" him when what most interests the Justice is to make the appointments of the Supreme Court.

For this reason, he has told the government that if it "wants" to continue negotiating with the PP, it must make a move by "withdrawing the proposal that it has just presented" in order to "return to the previous situation", or else "expand that reform and allow the CGPJ not to name only the TC but also the Supreme Court".

The leader of the PP has affirmed that the PP would be "perfectly legitimate" to "break the negotiation" but has affirmed that it will not do so because the Popular Party has "more sense of State" than the Executive led by Pedro Sánchez.

The person in charge of Institutional of the PP has indicated that his training continues working on his proposal to regenerate Justice - which he announced that he would present before the second half of July - and does not rule out presenting it publicly.

González Pons has complained about the Government's way of proceeding because his party gave the Government a deadline and leaves it "hanging on the brush". "The Government is losing our confidence in this negotiation," he has indicated, to insist that it should withdraw the initiative that it presented on Friday or expand it so that the renewal in the Supreme Court can "reactivate the same" as in the Constitutional Court.

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