The change would be limited to the 12 members chosen by Congress and denounce the “coup” against one of the powers of the State of the popular
MADRID, 28 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has demanded that the PSOE give “a blow to the table” after the “umpteenth excuse” of the PP to block the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CHPJ) and, consequently , urges him to adopt the “only possible solution”: change the election system so that 12 members are elected by absolute majority instead of by three-fifths of Congress.
In this way, he transfers to the Socialists that he has a “perfectly viable” progressive majority in the chamber to undertake this reform and rejects the argument that the EU does not allow this change to be undertaken. “It’s a lie”, he has sentenced him.
Through a thread on Twitter, Echenique has called for a reaction to prevent the continuation of “one of the most serious blows against democracy in the last 40 years”, such as the “kidnapping of one of the three powers of the State during an entire legislature”.
And that happens by reactivating his project to reform the organic law to change the method of election of the 12 members chosen by Congress, who came to present in 2020 with the PSOE but who later withdrew when their partner desisted from this route.
Consequently, after giving the PP the negotiation as broken, Echenique demands that the PSOE assume that it only has that option to “thus snatch Feijóo’s blocking minority.”
“The organic law of the judiciary can be modified, therefore, in Congress to establish a new method of election” and bets on the formula of enabling the path of the absolute majority with the participation of “at least half of the groups parliamentarians”, similar to the formula used to renew the board of RTVE.
With this requirement to bring together half of the groups, which would now be five, in his opinion, “ideological plurality” is guaranteed in the governing body of the judges and to prevent one or a few formations from sharing the CGPJ.
Moreover, Echenique has reasoned that the requirement of a three-fifths majority in Congress, which currently governs the selection of members, corresponds to the “time” of bipartisanship and allows the PP “flagrant breach of the Constitution.”
However, the spokesman for the confederal group details that the election of the eight members of the legal shift would maintain the current qualified majority, because said correlation cannot be modified as it is “shielded” by the Constitution. Here, he admits that “blocking minorities” could continue to appear.
“The solution is as easy as, in the same modification of the organic law in which the method of electing the judges’ shift is changed, including provisions so that the renewal of the CGPJ occurs even if there is a blockage in the jurists’ shift. With 12, there is a quorum”, asserts the leader of the purple formation..
