Alberto Núñez Feijóo conveyed this morning to the leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP), who met in Brussels in a session prior to the Council meeting, his concern about the Spanish political situation derived from the processing of the amnesty law, which can be “a destabilizing element of the European Union.”
A situation that he has his European colleagues aware of, which is now expanding with a “massive offensive against the judges.” For this reason, the president of the PP considers that the reform of Justice, which was addressed for the first time yesterday by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the vice-secretary of Institutional Policy of the PP, Esteban González Pons, in a meeting, is more necessary than ever. meeting that was supervised by the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders.
Given this situation, the president of the PP assured this Thursday in Brussels that the renewal of the Council and the Reform of Justice will be negotiated in parallel, to guarantee their independence. “As long as everything is not closed, we will not be able to agree on anything,” said Feijóo in statements to the media, who insisted that the renewal of the CGPJ and the reform of the law “will have to happen simultaneously”, because ” there will be renewal and there will be law. There will be law and renewal. If not, the negotiation would be lame.”
Feijóó denounced that with the processing of the amnesty law, a “massive offensive against the judges” has begun in Spain, which entails “a continued lack of respect for the magistrates, permitted by the Government, and insults in the parliamentary seat, calling them prevaricators and corrupt”, and that, he stressed, “in a country of the European Union, that cannot be accepted.”
Feijóo guaranteed that the PP “is not going to take a single step back” and will defend the rule of law in Spain, in the face of the amnesty law that the Government and Junts continue to negotiate, transferring to the European Commission and the European Parliament, that Europe “it cannot be allowed that the fourth euro economy is questioning fundamental pillars of the Union.”
During his stay in Brussels, Alberto Núñez Feijóo also met, for 45 minutes, with the president of the EPP, the German Manfred Weber, in which he conveyed to the popular leader his concern “about the Spanish political situation as a possible destabilizing element of the Union European”.
Feijóo spoke to Weber about the “attack on judicial independence from public powers” that is taking place even from the Government, about “the trivialization of acts considered terrorist by judges”, or about the “vocation to downplay the importance of collaboration between the Catalan independence movement and the Russian regime”.
All these issues, according to the president of the PP, are aspects, according to Feijóo, that worry the Popular Party “and that our European colleagues look at with concern.”
