Echenique accuses the PP of giving a “soft blow” to democracy and Asens calls for the resignation of the members of the CGPJ if they do not renew the TC
MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has defended that there is no other option to overcome the PP’s blockade of the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) except to change the majority system to elect members, at the same time who has stressed that the PSOE knows its position and must pronounce itself.
In addition, the president of the parliamentary group and leader of En Comú Podem, Jaume Asens, has called on the current members of the CGPJ to appoint the new members of the Constitutional Court or resign en bloc, at the same time that he has demanded that the PSOE leave of being the “pagantastas” of the PP in this matter.
This has been transferred by both in statements to TVE and Onda Cero respectively, collected by Europa Press, to insist on their demand to rescue the proposal to reform the organic law of the Judicial Power to enable the election of 12 members that correspond to Congress, a once again the negotiation with the PP to reshape the governing body of the judges has failed.
In this way, Echenique has defended the option of enabling the path of electing members by absolute majority, when it is not possible to do so through three-fifths of the chamber, and with the requirement of bringing together half of the parliamentary groups in the chamber. This would maintain the condition of requiring a qualified majority and would guarantee the “ideological plurality” of the judicial body.
And it is that for Echenique the situation of the CGPJ only leaves two options, to allow the PP “consume its soft blow to democracy” to have the Judicial Power “kidnapped” during the entire legislature, or to “snatch” its “minority” from the popular of blockade” with this reform of the majority system for the election of members.
Faced with this dilemma, Echenique has claimed that there is only one option and it is that legislative change to react to the serious “infraction” of the constitutional order by the main opposition party.
Questioned by the EU’s objections regarding the remodeling of the election system in the CGPJ, Echenique has responded that the opinions in the community sphere are “non-binding recommendations” on this matter, emphasizing that this legislative change is an area of ??strict “national sovereignty” because it is the Congress that elects 12 representatives.
Regarding whether they have transferred their position to the PSOE, the leader of the purple formation has stressed that his partner knows the position of United We Can and that overcoming this “kidnapping” that “degrades” the institution “goes beyond partisan political positions.”
In turn, the president of the parliamentary group and leader of En Comú Poden, Jaume Asens, has also considered that “sooner rather than later” the reform of the Judiciary Law must be addressed to reduce the majorities necessary to elect the twelve members of the judicial turn, in such a way that the PP is not necessary for the agreement.
“We have been saying for three years that this reform must be addressed,” he assured, noting that the members of the CGPJ are meeting this afternoon and it is time to ask them “to elect the members they have to elect or else they resign.” “That is to say, that they comply with the law because they are already breaking the law”, he assured regarding the situation of the TC, at the same time that he warned that “if nothing happens” this afternoon “we will have to think about possible legal measures”.
Asens has warned that it is “one of the worst blows to democracy” since 23F and this, in his words, has to do with the “patrimonial” vision of the power of the right. “The right tends to break the rules of the democratic game when it loses,” he pointed out.
