In Moncloa they assure that they do not harbor the slightest concern before the first parliamentary face-to-face that Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo will hold this Tuesday in the Senate, in the first control session of the Government that will star the new leader of the Popular Party. “It will go well”, they settle, without giving it greater relevance or importance. In fact, the spokeswoman for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, has warned that Sánchez faces this appointment “with absolute normality”. “This is an ordinary plenary session, and in an ordinary way we go to the Senate to account for our management. Surely for Feijóo it will be extraordinary”, Rodríguez warned, given the importance that the PP wants to grant, in the opinion of the Socialists, to this first clash with the chief executive.
The government spokeswoman has taken advantage of this appointment, however, to once again demand from the leader of the PP the immediate renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), which has already accumulated three years of delay. Isabel Rodríguez has thus trusted that Feijóo will do this afternoon “what he has to do, which is to act as head of the opposition, and that he also do it as our country deserves, which is with a sense of state.” Given the imminently pending renewal of the magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC), which is linked to the prior unblocking of the CGPJ, the minister has warned that “it is not the Government that has to take a step forward on this issue”. “The main opposition party is expected to comply with its constitutional obligations and that we advance in the renewal of the CGPJ and we can also comply with the renewal of the TC magistrates with absolute normality”, she reiterated.
“The PP can say mass”, Isabel Rodríguez has replied, given the conditions that Feijóo sets to renew the governing body of the judges, in line with what his predecessor in office, Pablo Casado, also did. “The reality is that the appointment of the magistrates of the Constitutional Court today depends on the renewal of the CGPJ. And what is unacceptable in a democracy is that the main opposition party refuses to comply with what all Spaniards are obliged to comply with, which is the Constitution”, the minister stressed.
“The Government requires the PP to agree to comply with the Constitution and, therefore, to unblock the CGPJ, in order to be able to appoint the TC magistrates normally,” he insisted. “We could do it this afternoon. If Feijóo decides to take advantage of that first speech in the Senate to show us that he is a statesman, he has it very easy ”, Isabel Rodríguez has demanded.
