The PP’s Deputy Secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, presented this Monday his “pact for regeneration and reform” of Justice to reach an agreement with the Government, but he has previously demanded that the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, withdraw his bill to reform the Judiciary that has “agreed with ERC” and that will allow the CGPJ to appoint members of the Constitutional Court.
“It is not enough to renew the institutions, but we have to make an effort to regenerate and reform them,” said González Pons at a press conference at the PP headquarters, after the meeting of the steering committee chaired by the party leader , Alberto Núñez Feijoo.
González Pons has pointed out that the PP demands the withdrawal of the PSOE’s “unilateral” bill to renew the TC that is voted on Thursday in the Lower House and that the “Government has agreed with ERC.” In that case, he continued, the PP will be willing to “negotiate the renewal of the CGPJ and the TC with respect to the law currently in force.
The leader of the PP has indicated that “simultaneously” his party requests that there be a reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary that “guarantees the regeneration and reform of the CGPJ election model.”
Among its measures, the PP proposes that those who have been in politics for the past five years cannot be appointed attorney general and that they can be challenged for that reason; and that the negotiation of the members of the CGPJ is carried out in Congress and the Senate, which is “what the law establishes.”
The PP also defends that the name of the president of the governing body of the judges be decided by the members, so that “there is no prior political pact” by which the politicians decide who will hold that position, according to Pons, who has said that the PP “combats” as far as it can “the revolving doors” between politics and Justice.
In addition, González Pons has assured that the PP demands that within six months, the new CGPJ elected with the law in force, propose to Congress a new election model for the future, “agreed between the judges and the judicial associations” .
