The president of the PP thanks the European Commission and the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, for having summoned the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, and the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Policy of the PP, Esteban González, for next Wednesday in Brussels. Pons, to address the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, with its supervision, so that it is clear that what was agreed responds to the criteria of the European Union.
In statements to the media, Feijóo recalled that it was he who made this proposal, and that is why he welcomes the fact that it will be possible to address this problem, but with a clear issue, that not only will the renewal of the Council be addressed, but “of simultaneously”, a law that “deepens the independence of the Judiciary”, which in accordance with the criteria of the European Union, means that the member judges of the CGPJ are elected “by their peers.
“The structured dialogue formula that I proposed is good news for Spain, and good news to deepen the independence of the Judiciary,” beginning a path “that prohibits politicians from going, without interruption, to the General Council of Power.” Judicial and Constitutional Court”.
Feijóo hopes that with the new law “it will be clear that ministers can no longer be magistrates of the Constitutional Court, and that general directors cannot go from La Moncloa to Constitutional Court”, because what the PP intends is that what is agreed with Reynders for the General Council of the Judiciary, “it is extended to the other jurisdictional bodies”, so that these criteria of independence are applied in the Superior Courts of Justice, the National Court”, etc.
The president of the PP also hopes that Reynders, upon learning of the amnesty law, “will have more elements of judgment” to ensure that “it is essential that governments do not make Penal Codes à la carte, and that the accused do not draft the amnesty law”, and that the amnesty law is not made to “help solve the problems of the Government and those who have committed crimes”.
The meeting of the representatives of the Government and the PP will coincide with the approval in Congress of the amnesty law, which for the PP represents “a deterioration of the rule of law”, which the European Union follows very closely, but remembers that the Approval in Congress is just one step, and now the processing is missing in the Senate and, he assured, “everything that they did not let us discuss: Appearances of constitutionalists, jurists, and the rest of civil society, we are going to hear in the Senate.”
Feijóo believes it is important to “send a message that in the Senate we can talk and things are not imposed, as has been imposed on us since Waterloo, a text that goes against the basic principles” and to emphasize that “all citizens are equal before the law, and that there is no caste of politicians that can commit crimes and can declare independence” without being held accountable, “and on top of that we have to ask for forgiveness.
