He emphasizes that the reform of sedition was not advanced at all but there is a majority to do it if they begin to debate proposals
MADRID, 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the United We Can group in Congress, Jaume Asens, has summoned the PSOE to recover the reform of the system for electing members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), when it assumes that the PP “is not trustworthy” and that its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is the “straw man” of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
He has also assured that the debate to reform the crime of sedition was not “progressing at all” and that the popular have used this issue to “invent a rage” with a view to breaking off the negotiation, especially when the commitment of the PSOE and the president Pedro Sánchez to change this criminal type was not new and dates back a long time.
In statements to the RNE program ‘Parliament’, collected by Europa Press, he stressed that his space always suspected that the PP “was not serious” and that the party that has used the CGPJ as a “hostage” for its political “blackmail” cannot be “a renewal agent”.
However, the leader of En Comú Podem has explained that they displayed a last margin of confidence out of respect for the PSOE, which continued to trust that the popular party would be a “state party”, but in the end it has been shown that “they have moved their headquarters from Genoa to the CGPJ”.
“We cannot continue with our arms crossed and we have to hit the table”, Asens emphasized to recognize that, in his opinion, it was a “mistake” to withdraw the majority reform to elect the members of the Judiciary, which in 2020 the two coalition partners registered in Congress.
Asked if they have contacted the PSOE to reactivate this bill, the parliamentarian of the confederal group has replied that “not yet” and they prefer to wait “a few days for the PSOE to digest the situation.” In this way, he sees clearly that the popular cannot be counted on for the governing body of the judges and in politics many things can be “less naive”.
In addition, the representative of the confederal group has stressed that his proposal maintains the criterion of first preponderating the three-fifths majority in the Lower House, but with an “exceptional formula” in case that consensus is not reached to allow the election by absolute majority in second vote and with the requirement of bringing together half of the parliamentary groups.
“We cannot function with a bipartisanship rule that no longer exists,” Asens has defended who, in turn, emphasizes that PSOE and United We Can, together with their investiture partners, gather more votes than the PP and, consequently, have more democratic legitimacy than a PP bent on its “kidnapping” and that sets conditions to raise it as if it were a “mafia group”.
Moreover, he has commented that the PP fails to comply with the constitutional mandate due to its “pre-democratic DNA” and that Feijóo’s image of moderation was nothing more than a “mirage”, since he has succumbed to “Ayuso’s trumpism” in the face of information that the The regional president called him on Thursday to ask him not to agree to the renewal of the CGPJ, thus maintaining his “seditious blow” to one of the powers of the State.
Regarding the reform of the crime of sedition, the deputy of En Comú Podem has made it clear that it is not an advanced issue and that the debate must first focus on defining “clearly, precisely and in accordance with European standards” what sedition is , which in the current wording is a “relic of the past”.
Moreover, he stressed that after the “sui generis” interpretation of the Supreme Court in the ‘procés’ sentence, the legislative power must “take the floor” and “agree” on defining the crime, given that the question of the prison sentences that are contemplated.
In his opinion, “the numbers (in Congress) are there to address the reform” and he counts 176 deputies who are in favor of changing the sedition, for which he advocates “sitting down” to address each of the parties’ respective proposals. .
Therefore, Asens has opined that the PP is “overreacting” with this matter and must “accept the rules of the game”, leaving it to the majorities in Congress to operate if they want to reformulate the Penal Code in this matter.
