Maroto says it cannot happen that ERC tells Sánchez to put “some gentlemen” in the TC with an eye on “a referendum”
MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Popular Group in the Senate, Javier Maroto, has insisted this Monday that if there is an agreement to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) it must be put into writing so that there are not “two different versions”, that of the PP and that of the Government. In addition, he has pointed out that, in this negotiation, what cannot happen is that the ERC tells the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, to put “some gentlemen on the TC so that a self-determination referendum can be held.”
In an interview on Onda Cero, which Europa Press has picked up, Maroto has stressed that the PP’s proposal for the renewal of the CGPJ is that politicians no longer choose judges “with the finger”. “The judges must be the ones who choose the judges, as is the case in other places in Europe,” he emphasized.
After admitting that it is an “anomaly” that the Council has not already been renewed — its term of office has expired for more than three and a half years –, it has pointed out that now rather than entering into who is “more to blame or not”, “It is important to be part of a solution”.
At this point, he recalled that the PP presented a proposal on the Judiciary this summer, which he also sent to Moncloa, so that politicians “do not continue to choose judges with their fingers.” In his opinion, if this continues to be the case, it allows citizens to think that “if Rufián and ERC tell Sánchez to put some gentlemen in the TC so that there can be a self-determination referendum, can this be done? ?”.
The PP spokesman in the Senate has assured that, “if something definitive comes out” of the negotiation between the Government and the PP, “it has to be explained so clearly that there cannot be two different versions of the same agreement the next day, one that of Bolaños and another that of the PP”.
“That is why our insistence that the agreement be crystal clear, be in writing and everyone can understand exactly what has been agreed, what criteria have been agreed and what names result from all that negotiation and deliberation,” he emphasized.
Maroto has stressed that it is necessary to prevent politicians from putting “their little finger on a judge to say ‘this is one of mine and I appoint you for that'” because in “the Spain of 2023 it is almost offensive, even if it is the result of the current legislation”.
For this reason, he has insisted that the PP wants to modify the law so that the judges “in an independent and clean manner with their own processes, as the workers elect their union representatives, can elect the representatives of the judges” in the CGPJ. In his opinion, for this issue there must be “light and stenographers” and “transparency criteria” must be followed.
When asked about the information from ‘El Mundo’ that for the fifth place in the Constitutional vacancy, Feijóo would be thinking of the president of the Galician Consultative Council, José Luis Costa, a person of his utmost confidence, Maroto stressed that “the way in which Feijóo works is not that” but “the opposite”.
That said, he stressed that what the PP wants is for Spaniards to be able to understand “what criteria” has been followed to “unblock, sanitize, clean and wash the image of how the governing bodies of the judges are chosen.” As he has indicated, those criteria “come first” and then establish the names.
