CCOO and UGT criticize that the TC generates "institutional tension" with the extraordinary plenary session and defends court reform

MADRID, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The CCOO and the UGT have criticized this Thursday "the tension to which the democratic institutions" of Spain have been subjected after the announcement of the Constitutional Court (TC) to convene an extraordinary plenary session that, in their opinion, will "prevent the normal development of legislative activity" in the Congress of Deputies.

In a joint communiqué, the union organizations have indicated that this "type of maneuver" by the TC "only responds to an intention to obstruct a legislative procedure" with which it was intended to undertake the reform of some judicial and constitutional bodies that, they have highlighted, " is inescapable and more necessary than ever after several years of blockade".

Both the UGT and the CCOO have demanded "absolute respect" for national sovereignty, which "resides in the Spanish people, from whom the powers of the State emanate", as detailed in the Spanish Constitution, because "it is the best guarantee for the independence of those powers."

"It would have been unacceptable that some of the magistrates with a marked ideological bias related to the opposition, with four of their members whose mandate expired since June, including their president, and blocking their renewal, had interrupted the democratic functioning of the Lower House ", they have warned.

In this context, given the postponement of the extraordinary plenary session of the TC, the unions hope that the body will abide by "the role that the Constitution has entrusted to it" and that it will refrain from "interfering that would set a bad precedent, with the subsequent damage to the democratic quality of our country". Thus, they have criticized the blockade in the renewal of the CGPJ and the TC "perpetrated by the political and judicial right" which, in their opinion, are "already unbearable in terms of democratic quality and institutional respect between the powers of the State"

"The political and judicial right must respect the division of powers of the State and its institutionality, and above all, it must behave in a democratic manner in respect for popular sovereignty, from which all the powers of the State emanate from the result of the general elections", have claimed the unions.