He stresses that “no progressive” can support his exclusion and that being part of the Executive does not affect his independence
MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesperson for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has insisted on the demand that the Government delegate against gender violence, Victoria Rosell, be part of the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and has launched that “nobody progressive can support” the “ad hoc veto” proposed by the PP to his figure.
She has also argued that the fact that she holds an executive position does not undermine the “judicial independence”, which she has shown during her career as a magistrate, and that it is an “insult to intelligence” for the PP to hide behind criteria of depoliticization to exercise an “exclusion with names and surnames”. Moreover, she has predicted that when the popular ones communicate their candidates to the body there will be a “strong political profile” in the list of jurists of the popular ones.
At a press conference in the Lower House, Echenique asserted that there is “unanimity” within United We Can that the PP’s veto of Rosell is a “political infamy” and that the collective bet is that in this negotiation, in order to try not to exercises, given that their inclusion is a guarantee of “regeneration” in the institution.
In line, he has commented that it is a “good basis” to achieve an agreement and has demanded that the PSOE not allow the judge and former deputy of United We Can to be left out of the list of candidates. And questioned about whether the purple formation would reject an agreement that does not include Rosell, as his party stated on Friday, the spokesman for the confederal group has stressed that it is not put on a stage because accepting that veto would be a “democratic setback.”
During his appearance, Echenique has argued that there is no impediment for Rosell to enter the governing body of the judges even if he is part of the Executive, since the CGPJ is not a jurisdictional body but a “political” entity.
Therefore, he has revealed that the condition raised by the PP is a “bad joke” and an “insult to intelligence.” In fact, he has criticized that a party that has kept the renewal “kidnapped” and that tried to “control” justice through the “back door” lacks credibility to speak of “depoliticization.”
And it is that this attitude of the PP reveals a “clause against Rosell”, with the intention of completing a “political hunt” that the “indecent” and “corrupt” former judge Salvador Alba began to “civilly destroy” the current delegate against the violence of gender.
Faced with the opposition of the PP, the leader of the purple formation has defended that if someone represents the “regeneration” of justice to “deworm” it from the PP, it is precisely Rosell, who has stood firm against “lawfare” (judicial war) he suffered, who has demonstrated his independence with actions throughout his judicial career.
The usual contacts within the coalition on the CGPJ are maintained by the head of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the deputy spokesman for the confederal group and representative of the IU, Enrique Santiago. Within the confederal space, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has called several meetings with representatives of the parties to analyze the situation of the negotiation.
All the branches of United We Can support the possibility of Rosell being a candidate, as the president of the parliamentary group Jaume Asens did last week, although Díaz and IU have advocated not publicizing names and focusing that discussion discreetly on the negotiating field. . Meanwhile, Podemos publicly presses for her to be a formal candidate with the warning to get out of that pact.
However, United We Can sources have stressed that Rosell is a possibility that is on the table but there are also other profiles that would have the endorsement of the confederal space. And it is that there are voices that recognize that the candidacy of the Government delegate against gender violence raises complications due to the requirement to opt for profiles that are not linked to political activity.
