The Popular Party and the European Popular Party (PPE) have denounced this Friday before the European Commission the Government’s proposal to appoint the former Socialist Minister of Justice Juan Carlos Campo and Laura Díez, a senior position in the Ministry of the Presidency until April, to the Constitutional Court, as the “last assault of Pedro Sánchez” with the said court.
They have done so in a letter signed by the president of the European PP and president of the Group of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, and by the spokesperson for the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat. The letter is addressed to Commission Vice President V?ra Jourová, who is Commissioner for Values ??and Transparency, and Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders.
For the popular this movement is “a violation” of the continuous calls of the European Union to the Member States to guarantee judicial independence and they demand that those who have held weighty positions in the current Government cannot be appointed to institutions that will have to pronounce on the constitutionality of laws and decisions dictated by the very Government of which they have recently been a part.
The PP recalls in the letter its position, in line with that defended by the EU, of “strengthening the institutions and avoiding the politicization of justice”. However, it does not refer at any time to the calls of the Commission, the last one this week, to renew the General Council of the Judiciary that this Sunday will celebrate four years with the mandate expired due to the successive refusals of the PP to reach an agreement for it.
