He assures that Bolaños agreed to leave out that agreement to negotiate from scratch but says that he “threatened” him with bringing that agreement to light
MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PP’s Deputy Secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, denied this Wednesday that the leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo had negotiated with the Government the renewal of the Judiciary based on the document signed last year by the PSOE with the previous ‘popular’ executive. by Pablo Casado: “It’s completely a lie”.
González Pons has acknowledged that the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, showed him that document “and others” at the first meeting they held, but that he rejected it for being a “secret” agreement and did not inform Feijóo that it existed, according to has stated in statements to Onda Cero and La 1, collected by Europa Press.
Asked if that agreement was part of the negotiation with Feijóo’s PP, the deputy secretary called it a “lie”, before stating that the first thing Bolaños told him was that “he had some documents that had been agreed upon in secret, unknown to public opinion and that he wanted to put them on the table”.
His response to Bolaños was “blunt”: “The Popular Party, on issues of the General Council of the Judiciary, does not admit secret documents.” For González Pons, if there is an agreement and a negotiation, both must be “public”, while he has pointed out that “the secret documents are very much in the style of Pedro Sánchez”.
The leader of the PP has indicated that Bolaños “threatened” him with bringing to light that agreement with Casado and “he has leaked it when he wanted”, to underline that this document “neither has been nor will be part of the negotiation” that will be maintains with the Sánchez Executive. “One thing is that the negotiation is discreet and another very different thing is that the agreements are secret”, he has specified.
According to González Pons, in that first meeting Bolaños agreed to leave that document out so that the negotiation could start from scratch. “The only paper that the PP has put has reasonable conditions to renew the Council with the law in force” and then address “in consensus” with the political parties and judicial associations a reform so that “it is the judges who choose the judges “, has added.
The deputy secretary of the PP has emphasized the “seriousness” of the non-renewal of the CGPJ, which has been in office since 2018, although he has warned that the most serious situation is not being suffered by the Constitutional Court, which has been “two months” pending the renewal of four magistrates, “but the Supreme Court”, which “is issuing more than a thousand sentences less each year” and “there are rooms that no longer have magistrates to be able to meet.”
González Pons sees a “great effort, by the State” as necessary to undertake the renewal of the Judiciary, something for which “it does not help” that the Government leak “old papers that have zero value in the current negotiation.” “That is trying to stick a finger in the eye, not to favor the negotiation but to cloud it.”
The PP is not in an “obstructionist attitude”, González Pons has maintained, who has urged the Government to put them “ahead” of Esquerra Republicana and Bildu in this matter and has criticized the “paper” of the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop , “who has nothing to say and is an ornamental character”, in the shadow of Bolaños.
