“It’s over, Groundhog Day has gone on too long.” This is how forceful the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has responded to the press’s questions about an in-extremis negotiation with the PP to unblock the Judiciary, conversations for which the Popular Party once again demand mediation from the European Commission.
“We can all agree that Groundhog Day has gone on too long. More than 2,000 days violating the Constitution are too many days. There are no longer valid excuses, another excuse cannot be put on the table. The PP has to decide if it is a party that is in compliance with the Spanish Constitution or outside it,” the president concluded during his appearance with the president of Turkey in the framework of the High Level Meeting held this Thursday.
Sánchez did not want to offer too many details of a reform that he has come to assume will be presented by the Government parties in the Congress of Deputies. “The PSOE and Sumar will propose to Congress a modification to unblock this unacceptable situation. What we want is to free the Council from the political kidnapping in which it is mired by the PP blockade,” he defended.
Given the criticism raised by the PP and even by the interim president of the Judiciary regarding the Executive’s idea of limiting the powers of the Council in the appointment of judges of the Supreme Court or the Superior Courts of Justice, Sánchez has limited himself to pointing out that the reform that he proposes will comply, he has said, with all the standards of democratic quality. “It will be a reform that is respectful of the independence of the Judiciary, fully constitutional and in accordance with European regulations. “An important step to regenerate a governing body that has been mired in paralysis for too long.”
The president has also been questioned during press question time about the state of health of the legislature and the governability of Catalonia. Regarding the latter, Pedro Sánchez has assured that he remains convinced that the presidency of the Generalitat passes through Salvador Illa. “I am convinced that there will be a government in Catalonia and there will be no repeat elections.”
After the reactivation of the parliamentary majority of investiture to carry out several initiatives in Congress today, the president has once again set the horizon of a legislature that has, he says, three years left. “We are a Government in top shape and we are going to continue demonstrating it over the next three years,” he concluded.
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