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The veto of the PP to judge De Prada and anyone close to United We Can blocks the negotiations for the Judicial Power

2021-02-26T02:31:40.923Z


Popular and socialists abandon the pact hours after having closed the renewal of RTVE, the first major agreement of the legislature


The leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, asks the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, during the control session at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid.Andrea Comas

The agreement seemed very close, but the PP and the PSOE have broken the negotiations at dawn to renew the main constitutional bodies, especially the General Council of the Judiciary.

Hours after reaching the first great agreement of the legislature to renew the RTVE council, which was closed without many problems with representatives of the PSOE, the PP, United We Can and the PNV, the popular veto to Judge José Ricardo De Prada , key in the sentence in the

Gürtel case

that prompted the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, has been the definitive obstacle that has prevented the agreement, according to sources from both sectors admit.

Unidos Podemos did not accept that veto at any time, and neither did the PSOE.

It was easier for the progressive sector to take over the veto of Victoria Rosell, a former member of the United We Can, but not that of De Prada, a respected judge not strictly linked to any party.

The PP did not give in and that has ended up breaking negotiations that seemed on track.

The PSOE, which governs in coalition with United We Can, could not afford a break with its partner on a key issue.

The PP negotiators seemed willing to veto practically any judge who had any connection with United We Can or was clearly proposed by them, and that has ended up breaking the negotiations.

The popular ones argue that De Prada “has not been chosen by his colleagues within the judicial shift nor has he collected endorsements for it.

Therefore, it is a fraud of the law, a judge who tries to enter the council through the back door, by the turn of lawyers, without having obtained sufficient endorsements from his colleagues ”.

"The PP will maintain coherence in the conditions raised.

The ball is on the PSOE's roof ”, popular sources conclude.

Despite Pablo Casado's attempt to break with the past and get away from the trauma of the

Gürtel case

, the sentence that led to the motion of censure continues to be a central element of the party's history and the popular do not accept under any circumstances having to vote as vowel to one of its architects.

This rupture also leaves the renewal of the Constitutional Court, the Court of Accounts and the Ombudsman in the air.

The Judiciary has had an expired mandate for more than two years, an absolutely exceptional situation that now remains unsolved.

It is the third fiasco in the judicial branch's negotiation in two years.

In December 2018, Judge Manuel Marchena resigned, already agreed as president.

In August 2020, Pablo Casado backed down when everything was almost closed and now again negotiations are broken at the last minute.

The most surprising thing is that the break comes a few hours after the first great agreement between the two political blocks of the legislature, sealed this Thursday by the PSOE, the PP, United We Can and the PNV to renew the RTVE council, which apparently opened the way to a new political stage.

Two and a half years after the motion of censure that broke the board and after 12 years of the last great agreement between the two great parties for the presidency of RTVE, it was the first great agreement of the legislature.

It was expected that he would be framed within others, but in the end he will be left alone.

Everything indicated that the turn of the PP, which began with its break with Vox in the motion of censure, was consolidated after the Catalan elections.

This was stated in the RTVE agreement.

Now there are two years without elections, in which despite the internal tensions of the coalition no one thinks of the Government in an electoral advance, and the PP had chosen to seek influence in the organs in which it can have it and isolate Vox, which He has been left out of RTVE and this Thursday he mocked in the Congress of the popular.

But that turn was left half with the breakdown of the negotiations to renew the Judicial Power.

The PP was very satisfied with the RTVE agreement, as was the PSOE and United We Can.

The three groups, with the PNV, have placed very close people on the RTVE Council.

This Thursday came the first internal criticism for the profiles excessively linked to politics chosen by the parties.

However, the one who received a good reception is the new president, José Manuel Pérez Tornero, a man proposed by the PSOE but accepted by the popular and respected in RTVE.

Sources of the leadership of the PP describe it as "very sensible."

For 12 years, since the election of Alberto Oliart in 2009, the two major parties had not agreed to the president of RTVE.

It was José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero who changed the law so that this position, which had historically been controlled by the ruling party, was elected by consensus in Congress.

Twice the president agreed with Mariano Rajoy.

But this, when he came to power with an absolute majority in 2011, decided to change the law and return to control RTVE without an agreement with the PSOE.

After the motion of censure that led Pedro Sánchez to La Moncloa, Rosa María Mateo was elected as the sole administrator, also without consensus with the PP, and now the pact that marked Zapatero's time has been returned.

The pact to renew RTVE was practically made in July of last year, but the PP backed down.

On the basis of what was negotiated then, Félix Bolaños, secretary general of the Presidency, and Teodoro García Egea, secretary general of the PP, have discussed for many hours a great package that had as a first step the RTVE agreement, which was voted yesterday in the Congress.

The talks have taken weeks but everything was unblocked when Pérez Tornero's name appeared this week, according to sources in the negotiation.

Bolaños and García Egea have seen each other every day, in the morning and in the afternoon, to close all the fringes.

In theory, a global pact was sought to announce it jointly this Thursday, but first the RTVE agreement arrived in the morning and at dawn the renewal of the Judiciary has been truncated by the veto that the PP puts on the names raised by Podemos .

The popular ones are very critical of the current situation of RTVE, which they see as "catastrophic" and "completely empowered", and have prioritized ending the stage of Rosa María Mateo.

The Socialists, on the contrary, defend the current RTVE but are very satisfied with the agreement.

They believe that it will serve to make it more recognized as plural television.

At the top of the PP they value the new agreement as the way to a consensus public television and they trust Pérez Tornero to correct the course of public television.

The PP hopes that Pérez Tornero, a technical profile linked to the academic world, "returns to its own production" and "ends the outsourcing" of some RTVE programs.

In the sights of the popular ones, the program Las Cosas Claras, directed by Jesús Cintora, is above all.

But sources from both the PSOE and United We can point out that only the name of the president is included in the agreement, and it will be he who directs the corporation.

The progressive sector has guaranteed the majority of the RTVE Council.

The PP has at all times vetoed the candidates of United We Can in the Judiciary, and in fact made the negotiation very complicated by publicly assuring that there would be no names close to this group among the members, something politically unfeasible because it would threaten the stability of the coalition Government, but has not had any problem accepting them on RTVE.

Some popular people joked that they had to vote as a RTVE advisor to the director of Mundo Obrero, the official publication of the Communist Party, José Manuel Martín Medem.

United We can have two representatives, three from the PP and one from the PNV.

The progressives thus have a clear majority with the four of the PSOE if the president is included.

Both the PSOE and United We can deputies had to vote for Carmen Sastre, who has stood out for her furious criticism of the current RTVE leadership and accusations of manipulation.

The enormous differences between the councilors, most of them closely linked to the parties, augurs complicated sessions.

The PP was almost obliged to accept the agreement in RTVE.

If it did not join, the PSOE could carry out the renewal without its participation if it achieved in a second vote an absolute majority and the support of five groups, which does not happen in the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ): it cannot be renewed without the PP as long as the law is not changed.

All the rest of the negotiation has run aground by the Judicial Power.

From the first moment, the biggest obstacle was the popular veto of Judge José Ricardo De Prada and Victoria Rosell, former deputy of United We Can and current Government delegate against gender violence.

The PP demanded the PSOE to convince the group of Pablo Iglesias, who demanded that the Socialists not accept vetoes.

The PSOE tried to find a solution, but it was impossible and at 00.20 both groups declared the negotiations broken in two identical statements.

The normalization of Spanish policy that the RTVE pact pointed out will have to wait a little longer.

Source: elparis

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