He believes that the Government filters it because it is very urgent to incorporate its proposals into the TC but he warns: “We are not going to accept being threatened”
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has dissociated himself this Thursday from the agreement for the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) signed by Teodoro García Egea, secretary general of the formation during the mandate of Pablo Casado, and has alleged that his predecessor did not give him “any document” in this regard during the transfer of powers.
In statements to the media in Porto do Son (A Coruña), Feijóo pointed out that the PP’s Deputy Secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, a popular interlocutor in the negotiations for the renewal of the CGPJ, has told him that “in no management committee “–not during Casado’s mandate– there was talk of “no document” signed by García Egea and the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños.
“When I dispatched with Casado, in the transfer of powers, he did not give me any document or agreement,” he added, reaffirming that he did not know about the agreement nor had it been discussed in any meeting, before wondering why “it is filtered now” . “Well, it leaks because we are in summer, and the Government is very urgent to incorporate its proposals to the Constitutional Court (TC),” he suggested.
“And because Bolaños has said that ‘either we reach an agreement or filter the paper,'” he added, before noting that the minister “threatened” González Pons with making the agreement signed at the time of the previous leadership public if the PP did not agree to their claims. To which the popular interlocutor replied, according to Feijóo, that this document “does not bind” the PP and that they do what they deem appropriate.
“We are not going to accept that they threaten us”, Feijóo has sentenced, who has described this attitude as “childish”, before warning that “Spain does not need childish policies, but a little more height politics”. Opposite, he has argued that the PP’s proposal on the CGPJ is “public”, for the Government and the Spanish, since last July 11.
Feijóo, who has stressed that, during his meeting with Pedro Sánchez, it was even agreed to talk about “resuming the talks” discarding the term “negotiations”, has once again defended that he “kept his word” and submitted a proposal that, has complained, “still no response”.
“In it we proposed to renew with a minimum criterion and requirements so that politicians do not elect judges close to the parties,” he defended, before reviewing some of the contents of the document sent by the popular, such as the provision of a thousand places of judges, at a rate of 200 a year, for the next five years; require 25 years of experience as a judge to preside over a Chamber in the Supreme Court; or a moratorium for the return of magistrates to the judiciary after passing through politics.
The plan sent to the Government, he insisted, was also previously discussed with the judiciary associations. But he lamented that, while the interlocutors of the PP and the Government were “talking and exchanging proposals”, the popular ones found out “through the press” that “the organic law of the Judicial Power was going to be modified to admit some appointments that he wants make the PSOE in the TC”.
MINISTERS “UNLOOSED” AGAINST HIM
Feijóo has also been asked about the criticism directed at him by Bolaños, who assured that the popular leader “is not to be trusted.” In this regard, the leader of the PP has focused on the fact that he “would not have time to work” if he focused on all the “disqualifications” that he receives from the Executive led by Pedro Sánchez.
In fact, he has warned that, since the Andalusian elections, “there is an instruction” from the Government and the PSOE “to talk about a certain Feijóo in the morning and in the afternoon.” “Everyone says the same thing, he is the same argumentative”, he has indicated, before attributing changes in organic socialist positions to looking for leaders who “insult him more” or “disqualify him more and with more intensity”.
“Ministers who were sensible people are unleashed. And I feel sorry for them because it doesn’t suit them or hit them. It doesn’t go with their character, or with their previous political career,” said Feijóo, before stating that he regrets “the nervousness” of the PSOE and issuing a warning: “We are not going to get nervous when Spain needs calm. Faced with a nervous government, Spain has to be calm.”
