Sumar respected Pedro Sánchez’s reflective process and supported his decision to continue leading the Executive. But he does not plan to condescend beyond what has happened in recent days. And given the lack of specification of the point and paragraph that the President of the Government announced yesterday, he has prepared a battery of reforms in pursuit of “democratic regeneration” whose spearhead is the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
This was made known yesterday, and in person, by the second vice president of the Government. And this was endorsed this Tuesday, the day after, urging Sánchez to change the three-fifths majority necessary until now to elect the members of the CGPJ, so that this body can be renewed without the participation of the PP.
Díaz has detailed his roadmap in an interview on Radiocable in which he has reasoned that the time for negotiation with the Popular Party “is no longer useful.” “There is an explicit will of the PP, of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, not to renew” the governing body of the judges, so it is only possible to “modify the law, the Organic Law of the Judiciary.”
The general coordinator of Sumar already appealed for its renewal in 2020 when, as part of Podemos, she voted in favor of approving a bill to leave the current three-fifths majority required as a simple absolute majority. This reform, as the purple party always remembers, would have allowed the CGPJ to be renewed only with the votes of the groups that supported the investiture of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
And now, with Sumar as part of the coalition, it would also move forward under the investiture bloc.
The measure enjoys great consensus in the plurinational group. And there are many members, both of the matrix and of the coalition formations, who advocate for regulatory change. This has been reported in the last few hours by the Sumar Justice and Interior spokesperson in Congress, and member of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, to the Compromís deputy Alberto Ibañez: “Asking members of the judiciary to resign is very good But, five years later we can use the BOE,” the latter said in his X profile.
This reform, sources from the confederal space report, can be undertaken through the Justice Efficiency Law that is being processed in Congress and is in the process of amendments.
However, the misgivings of the judges and the European Union towards this reduction led the PSOE to renounce it and the proposal was never processed. Brussels then demanded that the reform be consulted with the opposition, with the judicial associations and with the Venice commission, the advisory body of the Council of Europe that advises on constitutional issues. “It is important that member states when reforming the judicial system carry out the necessary consultations with all relevant actors and with the Venice commission,” said European Union Justice Spokesperson Christian Wigand.
Díaz has insisted on Radiocable on other points necessary to promote the Executive such as legislating access to housing, the reform of the Citizen Security Law or “gag law”; the reduction of the working day because, like Sánchez, “citizens also need time for themselves”, and “democratize justice.”
Within this last section is the one in which, in addition to the reform of “the training and selection procedures of the high structures of the State”, which “are all taken by a group of families” in a situation that “comes from the Franco era “, a recurring theme of Sumar, for the first time strongly advocated resuming the reform of the majority to elect the CGPJ.
