Feijóo sees Spain in “the most critical moment of Spanish democracy” as a consequence of the Government’s dependence on the independence movement and its demand for amnesty to maintain the legislature. But the president of the PP is convinced that Pedro Sánchez is going to try to approve it “until the end”, which puts the rule of law in a situation in which, he said, “we must decide, either constitution or amnesty, and between constitution and amnesty, of course, constitution.”
In an interview on EsRadio, the president of the PP was convinced that with amnesty law or without amnesty law, Sánchez, who will have to choose between legislature and resisting, will choose to resist, even if to do so, “he will make a fool of the entire Prosecutor’s Office, accept unusual insults against the judges who are called “corrupt and prevaricating” parties that are part of the Government “and the president of Congress does not say a word.”
That is why he predicts that the legislature “is going to be an ordeal”, and the problem, he says, is that the obvious problems of Spanish families are not talked about. Feijóo maintains that the amnesty is clearly unconstitutional, and also does not understand that ” In a country where the family of the head of state has sat on the bench, there are politicians to whom we have to apologize for committing crimes, and erase, which is what amnesty does, the crimes committed,” it is not possible allow.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, therefore, will use all the mechanisms at his disposal, and the visit of the Venice Commission, at the request of the PP, is good news for Feijóo, as is the fact that Europe has accepted the supervised dialogue to the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
According to the popular leader, “Europe has realized how the judicial power is in our country and that is why they have accepted” this supervision, which is “an unusual fact”, and which allows it to defend, before Europe, that “here There is a renewal of the Council and a law that reforms the form of CGPJ elections, or there will be no agreement, and we are not going to waste Mr. Reynders’ time,” the European Commissioner for Justice who acts as mediator.
Feijóo believes that a first step has been achieved in the complaints of the PP before the European Union, such as that in Europe they know that there is a president of the Constitutional Court who has been attorney general of the State, appointed by the Government and two magistrates who have been part of the Council of Ministers, or have held positions of responsibility in the Government. And that, he is convinced, is not liked in Europe, because “it produces distrust in an institution that is basic.”
The president of the PP is satisfied with the presence in Spain of the Venice Commission, “made up of recognized, independent people”, who study the amnesty law, something that he considers essential, because “a law that does not fit into the Constitution “, be debated by a procedure, that of the proposed law, “without requesting any type of report, neither from the Council of State, nor from the Judiciary, nor from the Fiscal Council”, it cannot be allowed, since being a law “doubtful”, “how do you do it by omitting mandatory reports? Well, because they know that the reports would be negative.” And the Venice Commission already knows that. Feijóo hopes that the Government “cannot continue with this outrage.”
That is why the PP has turned to Europe. “The European Union is the place where we have decided to be,” Feijóo said, and it is based on basic issues: equality of all citizens, independence of the judiciary and separation of powers. “And those three principles are being attacked in Spain, because it was the price of the investiture,” Feijóo said.
