MADRID, 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has accused the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of using the “umpteenth excuse”, in this case the announced reform of the crime of sedition by President Pedro Sánchez, to , in his opinion, maintain the “soft blow” to democracy and not renew the General Council of the Judiciary.
This is how Echenique has expressed himself in a message on the social network Twitter, collected by Europa Press, after this Thursday the Popular Party has suspended the negotiations with the PSOE to renew the body of judges that has expired for four years.
The president of the United We Can parliamentary group in Congress, Jaume Asens, has spoken along the same lines, reminding the main opposition party that it is a “constitutional duty”.
Likewise, Asens has claimed that reforming the crime of sedition is also a “democratic duty” that Europe “demands”, for which he has accused the PP of not believing in the Constitution, in Europe or in democracy.
The Popular Party has decided to suspend negotiations with the PSOE to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and has offered the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “to address together any reform” of the Penal Code, among which it has included those that affect to the crimes of rebellion and sedition, as well as the criminalization of calling an illegal referendum.
This has been reported by the PP in a statement after the leader of the ‘popular’, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had a telephone conversation with Sánchez to update the status of the talks for the renewal of the pending bodies and in which, the ‘popular’ have explained, the Prime Minister confirmed the reform of the crime of sedition.
In the conversation, according to the PP, Feijóo has criticized that the head of the Executive announced “wrongly” that the agreement to renew the governing body on Thursdays “was made” while “several relevant and essential issues for the Party were still open Popular”. At a press conference, Sánchez announced this Thursday that the agreement on the CGPJ “is ready” in the absence of the PP “saying yes.”
