The PSOE asks the groups for "responsibility" to change the law again and that the CGPJ appoint magistrates of the TC

MADRID, 24 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for the Socialist Group in Congress, Héctor Gómez, appealed this Friday to the "responsibility" of the parliamentary groups in the Chamber to support the bill that the PSOE is going to register in order to once again modify the Organic Law of the Judiciary and empower the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to appoint the two magistrates that correspond to it to renew the Constitutional Court.

In statements in Congress, Gómez has said that he hopes to have the greatest possible support for this new express reform and has confirmed that his intention is for it to be in force in the month of July in order to be able to renew the two corresponding magistrates as soon as possible. elect the body of judges in parallel to the two that the Executive has to designate. The term of the four ended on June 19.

For this reason, the intention of the PSOE is to process this bill through the urgent procedure and in a single reading so that it receives the approval of both Chambers as soon as possible and can be published in the Official State Gazette throughout the month that comes.

"It is an exercise of responsibility to put the TC into operation as soon as possible", stressed Gómez, who has justified this decision in the face of "the impossibility of reaching an agreement with the PP", which he has once again made ugly for refusing to "obey the constitutional mandate" and to renew the CGPJ.

For this reason, he has summoned him again, "once and for all", to negotiate the renewal of a body that has been in office for three years. "They know that it has to be done under the law that is in force and that it is a responsibility and an obligation for the proper functioning of the Judiciary," he said.

Gómez does not believe that this pact can move further away with the decision of the PSOE to change again the precept of a law that was reformed in March 2021, precisely to prevent an expired CGPJ from appointing judges. The article that is going to be retouched again is 570 bis of the Organic Law of the Judiciary, now to allow the CGPJ to exclusively appoint the two members of the TC that correspond to it.

"Quite the contrary", Gómez responded to the question of whether resorting to a new express reform of the law can lead the PP to entrench itself even more in its position. "What we want is to give normality to the functioning of the TC", he said, emphasizing that supporting this new modification is an "exercise of maximum responsibility" and that one cannot be "waiting 'sine die'" for the PP to have "will "that the courts function properly.