The agreement between the PSOE and the PP to carry out, yesterday, the reform of the Constitution and for the word diminished to disappear from the text was a mirage. The confrontation between the PSOE and the PP rose several tones this Friday, with exchanges of statements and elaboration of arguments by both parties, after the words spoken by the third vice president of the Government, Teresa Ribera, who accused Judge García Castellón, who instructs the Tsunami Democratic case as a case of the crime of terrorism, of lack of impartiality, and of always looking for the dates that most “convenience one party.”
An accusation of full-fledged law fare, for the PP, which means that the Government has bought the speech of the Catalan independentists, denounced the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, for which she demands that Pedro Sánchez and the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños “disavow” the vice president, because it is no longer a party that accuses a judge of “prevarication,” but the Government.
The general secretary of the PP framed Ribera’s words in the same payment to the independentists that has led the PSOE to assume the amnesty for those involved in the process, and that takes a further step “by directly accusing the Judiciary, and a judge like García Castellón, of prevaricating, of not being impartial”, when until now that, he said, “was the speech of the independentistas.”
But now, and for Cuca Gamarra this is what is serious, “it is the Government that assumes this discourse, as payment for the price that Pedro Sánchez pays to remain in power.” For this reason, the number two of the PP denounces the statements of Vice President Ribera, because “in Spain, she said, the judges are impartial, they do not prevaricate, they exercise their competence, which is a competence granted by the rule of law, in the Constitution.”
And in addition to denouncing the words of Teresa Ribera, the vice president demands that “in a blunt manner”, the Minister of Justice, because he is the competent person in the relationship of the Government with the judges, and the President of the Government, because he is Ribera’s superior , “disavow statements that are not made by a party, but by the Government”, assuming “that in Spain the judges prevaricate.” If Sánchez and Bolaños do not disavow Ribera, says Cuca Gamarra, “they, with their silence, are assuming that in Spain there is law fare, and that is not the case.”
For the PP, “it hurts to see the Government of our country recite the independence argument, discrediting our democratic system in the process” and highlights that “it is increasingly difficult to differentiate the statements made by the leaders of the PSOE from those made by those of ERC or Junts “.
The general secretary of the PP maintains that Spain is “a full democracy, with an independent justice system, when you like the judges’ resolutions, and when you don’t.” Cuca Gamarra recalled that Judge García Castellón has handled cases in which he has implicated popular politicians, but in the PP, he stated, “we defend his independence and partiality,” as well as the independence and impartiality of all judges, because “these are the rules of democracy.”
Specifically, in the PP they remember that “the socialists did not question the impartiality of Judge García Castellón when he was investigating cases such as Púnica, Lezo or Kitchen”, which affect members of the PP, who were convicted, and that is why they summoned Félix Bolaños to speak about the statements of Teresa Ribera. “Her silence and that of Sánchez would confirm that the PSOE no longer believes in those levels of the Spanish Justice in which there is no judge or magistrate directly chosen by the President of the Government.” For this reason, the PP also demands “the cessation of attacks on Spanish judges by the independentists, but above all, and also, by the Government.”
Cuca Gamarra also referred, to questions from journalists, to the controversy created between the president of the Community of Madrid, Cuca Gamarra, and the Government, due to the statements of Díaz Ayuso in which he referred to complaints of sexual assault in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, where there have been two complaints, attributed to a black citizen, which led the Government delegate to accuse the president of equating immigration with violence.
“The complaints exist,” said Cuca Gamarra, and given the situation created with the arrival of immigrants from the Canary Islands without having notified the Autonomous Community, the Madrid president “has requested information and coordination, to be able to serve these people in conditions.” . The general secretary of the PP does not believe that Isabel Díaz Ayuso is racist or maintains an anti-immigration discourse, because, she said, “she has been the first that when the Canary Islands has asked for help, she has provided it to welcome unaccompanied minors”, and another thing is ” ask the Government of Spain for responsibility, which is what a good ruler should do.
The general secretary of the PP stated that “here, the only xenophobic and racist speeches are those of the partners of the Sánchez Government, to whom they are willing to hand over immigration powers, so that they can expel immigrants”, not Díaz’s speech Ayuso, to “ask for coordination, accompanied by solidarity to welcome.”
