Perhaps in the Madrid metro there is no talk of blocking the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, as the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, assured in her day, but yesterday, in the middle of the Todos los Santos bridge and in the middle of summer , that neologism that the high temperatures of climate change have brought, continued to produce political reactions to Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s decision to break the agreement, when it was practically closed, with the Government.
The Socialists redoubled their criticism of the leader of the PP and questioned his suitability as a candidate for the presidency of the Government after having seen him give in to internal pressure, materialized in a tweet by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and external pressure, crystallized in warnings from the capital’s media, to undo your commitment.
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training and spokesperson for the federal executive of the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, was in charge of giving continuity to the arguments that Pedro Sánchez and Felipe González had used on Saturday in Seville, in the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the historic socialist victory, to refute Feijóo, who hides behind the “lies” of the president about his promised reform of the crime of sedition to back down.
In statements released by the PSOE, Alegría assured that “Feijóo has lost the opportunity to become a true patriot, a true statesman” and that his decision has caused “the greatest crisis of justice” in Spanish democracy , with a CGPJ whose mandate has expired for almost four years and an alternate president after the resignation of the last one formally elected.
Alegría questioned the “thousands of excuses” that, in his opinion, the president of the PP has sought to justify his “constant irresponsibility” and defined Feijóo as someone without “autonomy” or “leadership.” A leader, he said, “who bows to the pressure of the most reactionary right and succumbs to pressure from the ultra-conservative forces” of the country.
Following the line drawn the day before by former President González, the Socialist spokesperson urged the PP, a formation that she sees installed in “constitutional refusal”, to comply with the law: “It is not a decision, it is an obligation,” she exclaimed.
“The Constitution is fulfilled every day, from the first to the last of its articles, every day of the year. Whether you are in the government or you are in the opposition”, defended the Minister of Education and Vocational Training, for whom the popular “have stopped opposing the Government for a long time to do it directly to Spain”.
The parliamentary partners of the Executive also alluded to the mandatory compliance with the Constitution to demand that Feijóo unblock the renewal of the governing body of the judges. The leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, censured the PP for “systematically forgetting” to do it “when it’s their turn” and exclaimed that the popular “trampled” the Magna Carta.
From Valencia, where he participated in a Més Compromís act, Errejón described the suspension of the negotiation by the PP as “extraordinarily serious”, since it represents an “institutional kidnapping”. And he went to Feijóo to make his “slaps” ugly, which, in his opinion, have caused him to have “drastically” lost the “credibility” that he treasured.
Together with Errejón, the also deputy Joan Baldoví spoke of “scandal” to refer to institutional paralysis and raised the tone to refer to a “soft coup” instigated by judges “who do not want to abide by the law.” “It is one of the most serious things that have happened in democracy,” stressed the leader of Compromís, who assured that the PP “is not up to the task” of the European conservative formations.
