Llop defends that the CGPJ parliamentary election model is the "most independent" in all of Europe

He says that the Government "has nothing to do" with the talks and that Bolaños negotiates on behalf of the PSOE

MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, defended this Thursday the current parliamentary election system of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), which she has defined as the "most independent" of "all" in Europe, since she has underlined which is the one with the most powers and the least linked to the Government.

In Llop's opinion, the model has now been called into question because the principle of "institutional loyalty" has been "broken" due to the lack of agreement between the political parties to renew the governing body of the judges, whose mandate expired in 2018 .

Llop has pointed out that this system, which he has described as "magnificent", has been "endorsed" by the Constitutional Court". Having said this, he has pointed out that the judges "already" choose their candidates to be the 12 members who later appoint the Congress and the Senate:

And he has said that it must be "explained over and over again, so that it is understood", in line with the visit to Spain a few weeks ago by the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, who again recommended that the judges be the ones who choose directly, without political intermediation, to their representatives on the Council.

"We have a model that is the most independent of all the European models, the body that has the most powers and the most independent of the Government, which has nothing to do with the renewal of who will be the members of the CGPJ," he assured. in an informative breakfast of the New Economy Forum.

In this line, he has argued that the Government "has nothing to do with the renewal of who will be the members of the CGPJ."

Asked then why it is the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, who is leading the negotiations with the PP to renew the Council, he pointed out that Bolaños is also a member of the Federal Executive of the PSOE, hence he has assumed that paper.

"The renewal corresponds to the Legislative Power and that is where it has to take place," the head of Justice settled, recalling that the Socialists are the "majority" political group both in Congress and in the Senate.

In addition, it has played down the importance of not being involved in the talks with the first opposition party, arguing that, as in the current model the CGPJ is "independent" of the Government, "Justice is not that it has no role, it is that it does not have to have none."

And she has stressed that she does not belong to any political party: "I am independent." In this sense, sources from the Ministry of Justice consulted by Europa Press have estimated that there is a bit of machismo if it is thought that Llop has been displaced from the negotiation on the CGPJ.