MADRID, 5 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has flatly rejected the proposal put forward by the PP for the election of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to make it clear that the only way out of the current crisis is through the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, show “leadership” and proceed to sign the agreement that had been reached with the Executive.
In an interview with La Sexta, collected by Europa Press, Bolaños recalled that after three weeks of negotiation the Government reached an agreement with the PP that included a proposal for a joint law “to reinforce the independence of justice” and on the other hand the names of the 20 new members of the CGPJ and the twelve substitutes, as well as the appointment of the magistrates of the Constitutional Court that depend on the Senate.
However, “when it was necessary to sign, Feijóo was not able, they told him that he could not sign and they twisted his arm,” he lamented, assuring that the “problems of leadership and authority” of the PP leader within the right are not a problem of the government.
“This agreement can be signed at any time, in seconds, because it has been done and it is absolutely agreed with the PP,” he insisted, betting on its immediate signing in order to “end an institutional crisis in the judiciary that has lasted for more than four years”.
In this sense, he has asked Feijóo to “exercise his leadership and sign that agreement that we had finalized” instead of allowing himself to be conditioned by “the most extreme elements of the right.” “The PP intends to maintain a composition (of the CGPJ) in accordance with the absolute majority of 2013”, he has ugly, insisting once again that the main opposition party has to comply with the law and the Constitution.
Thus, expressly asked if the Government would endorse the PP’s proposal that the judges be the ones to choose the members of the CGPJ, Bolaños stressed that “the current model is perfectly democratic, has been in force for 35 years and responds to an agreement of State between the PP and the PSOE in 2001 when José María Aznar governed”.
The only agreement that the Government and the PSOE accept is the one already reached with the PP by which “some aspects of the Organic Law of the Judiciary were reformed and judicial independence was reinforced”. “We vindicate Mr. Feijóo that he have a little authority and that he sign it”, he has finished off.
