MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, has assured this Wednesday that the PP’s Deputy Secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, is in a “very big contradiction” by denying that the Feijóo PP has negotiated with a “secret” document on the renovation of the CGPJ, and has underlined that what really happens is that the PP “has no will” to renew the institutions of Justice.
This is how Iceta pronounced himself in an interview on TVE, collected by Europa Press, in which he was asked about Pons’s statements about the agreement revealed by the newspaper ‘El País’ between the minister Félix Bolaños and the former general secretary of the PP Teodoro García Ejéa, the minister has pointed out the “contradiction” that is taking place in the PP because he speaks of “public agreements” and “when he is shown a signed agreement, it seems wrong to him,” he said.
In this sense, the Minister of Culture and Sports has questioned the performance of the PP alleging that “it would think about it a lot” with a party that “even when it signs something later it does not comply” and has criticized that the ‘popular’ refuse to renew the institutions “when they believe that this harms them” while they do “force” them when they believe that this “benefits” them.
Likewise, Iceta has recalled that the constitutional bodies have not been renewed for more than 1,350 days and that this renewal does not occur due to the “blockade” of the PP, while he has disfigured that although “they said that Feijóo was the moderate” with this behavior ” It seems that Casado was the moderate one”.
The minister has also mentioned that “the easy thing” would be to “dismantle it” and accept what was really signed, but that “what is really important” is that the renewal be carried out.
For this reason, he has asked Feijóo’s party to “be faithful to what they say they are, a State and democratic party”, and to be a party that “is committed to the institutions and to all Spaniards”. In addition, he has censured that the PP “is never there when he is sought and needed”, in reference to other negotiations such as the minimum vital income, salary increases or pensions.
Iceta has also added that the renewal of the CGPJ “does not have to do with electoral strategies”, but with an “opportunity game” that consists of waiting if there is a moment that “benefits them more” and in the meantime they intend to “get political revenue”.
Finally, the minister has compared the behavior of the PP with that of former United States President Donald Trump who “played it masterfully like that, with control of the institutions and blocking when it could harm you.”
