The thought behind the words spoken by Esteban González Pons on Tuesday in Barcelona at a meeting of the Círculo Ecuestre, where he described the Constitutional Court as a “cancer”, are shared by a large part of the state leadership of the PP, despite the rectification he made hours later the deputy secretary of institutional policy of the party.
Both the number two of the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, and the spokesperson of the PP group in Congress, Miguel Tellado, questioned yesterday in statements the impartiality of the Court of Guarantees, for the appointments made by the PSOE to occupy the positions of magistrate.
The PP points out especially who was Minister of Justice with Pedro Sánchez, Juan, now at the Constitutional Court, and also Laura Díez, director general of Constitutional Affairs and Legal Coordination at the Ministry of the, first with Carmen Calvo and then with Félix Bolaños.
In addition, they also point to the president of the court himself, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, who was State Attorney General under the presidency of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
With these elements, they directly accuse Pedro Sánchez of being “the first to try to politically contaminate the Constitutional Court”, according to the opinion of, who considers that the Spanish Government has “colonized” it with these appointments.
According to the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, the composition of the court’s plenary – which now has a progressive majority after the years it had a conservative majority – “does not help the image of the Constitutional Court’s impartiality”.
Both agree that this colonization “is normal for it to cast doubt on the impartiality of the Constitutional Court”. According to Gamarra, “it is not the best way to guarantee the independence of the Constitutional Court, on the part of the Executive, when it has the responsibility to make appointments”.
In relation, once again, to González Pons’ statements in Barcelona, ??the general secretary of the PP denied that the management made it rectified and assured that it was on her own initiative, which, in her opinion, the honor, because “we are not used to the fact that in politics no one believes that they have to rectify when it is not finished”.
Gamarra stated that it is very important to “strengthen and strengthen the independence of the governing bodies of the Judiciary, the Constitutional Court and other independent bodies that have an important task when it comes to the functioning of the separation of powers and counterweights, within a democracy”.
For his part, Telladova stressed that everyone has seen, in recent months, that the Government of Sánchez, “in a premeditated and continuous manner”, is interfering with the judiciary”.
When asked if the Popular Party will appeal against the Amnesty law before the Constitutional Court, which Pons questioned, the popular spokesman stated that his formation “will appeal in all judicial instances and all parliamentary procedures”. using “all resources” to “stop the nonsense that the Socialist Government is carrying out”, concluded the popular spokesman.
