The Government stands and asks the PP to take the first step if it wants to resume the CGPJ negotiation

The president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona during the press conference that she offered this Monday in Ferraz after the meeting of the Permanent Commission of the PSOE.PSOE / EVA ERCOLANESE / PSOE / EFE

Neither the PP nor the Government give in.

Both have come too far to back down on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

The Government stands with its candidates and the PP returns to the starting position, to deny United We can make proposals.

José Ricardo de Prada.

it has always been on the government's list, they say on the socialist side.

The person who has broken up should be the one who takes the first step to resume the relationship.

This is the guideline of the permanent meeting of the PSOE federal executive commission this Monday, which was chaired by the party's general secretary, Pedro Sánchez.

The Socialists refuse, for the moment, to change the names of magistrates and jurists who are in their quota for the renewal of the governing body of the judges, since they do not contest any of those proposed by the PP.

Reciprocity was expected, but it is not.

The two parties have said goodbye without a date to meet again and the PSOE has decided, with the acquiescence of the executive, to maintain the proposal of the magistrate De Prada.

This is how the week began after last Thursday the Government and the PP announced the breakdown of the dialogue.

The name of Judge De Prada, who signed along with another magistrate in the

Gürtel case

sentence

that triggered the motion of censure that removed the PP from power, remained the insurmountable obstacle.

The Socialists defend that the trajectory of Judge José Ricardo de Prada does not deserve this reputational beating and going to a list of excluded.

"It is not from Podemos and the PP knows it," insists the PSOE.

At this time, the PP is not compensated by a pact with the Government by having compromised his word, in the voice of the Secretary General, Teodoro García Egea, that Podemos would not intervene in this appointment process.

"The negotiation has been broken by the PP although it has already known the names for a long time," said the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, after the meeting of the permanent commission of her party.

Narbona went back to the November 2018 negotiation when everything jumped into the air after hearing a message exchanged between the leaders of the PP where they presumed to control the CGPJ through the back door through who was going to be its future president, the magistrate Manuel Marchena.

It was Marchena himself who, upon unveiling those messages, resigned his post and the negotiation by which the PP accepted the names that it now vetoes was frustrated.

The blockage in the renewal of the governing body of the judges, which has expired for more than two years, is real and, although no party dares to deny that there may be changes, they are not in sight at all.

"The PP complexes" are the cause of this attitude, in the interpretation of the PSOE, as pointed out by the first vice president of Congress, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis.

Complexes that cause Vox and corruption.

This consideration of the secretary of Institutional Policy of the PSOE is shared in a general way in his party, parliamentary group and the Government.

Any pact with the Executive carries a strong critical offensive by Vox against the PP.

They do not deny in the popular ranks that the hammering of Vox with these approaches of the PP to the Government to renew institutional positions hinders their action.

The page has already been turned, at least that is what the PP appeared on Monday, which obviated this negotiating failure and focused on attacking the central government for the violent incidents in Catalonia.

Narbona also answered these criticisms on Monday: "Minister Marlaska is not missing, but in permanent contact with the Catalan authorities to follow the events."

The socialist leader announced that the Minister of the Interior would give explanations about the events in Barcelona.

The Government does not want to bury this rupture of the dialogue of the PP to renew the General Council of the Judicial Power.

For the third time that is known, it has been close to being achieved.

But in order to carry out an entrenched renewal, the socialist wing of the Government does not contemplate in any case excluding candidates who are to the liking of United We Can.

In the background, those PSOE leaders acknowledge, there is the will not to open more fronts with their partners, of the Government than they already have open.

The Board will address pending appointments

The Council of the Judicial Power will address in the plenary session next Thursday the appointments of pending positions if, as confirmed by all the protagonists of the negotiation, there is no agreement between the PSOE and the PP. This does not mean, however, that all the obstacles have been circumvented among the members themselves to forge internal agreements on the proposed candidates. It is possible that the dialogue between the parties has not been resumed, or has not borne fruit, and despite this there are no pending appointments in the Council of the Judiciary either. The greatest difficulty stems from the fact that a global consensus has not been obtained on the list of eight positions to be filled. And without that joint pact it is more difficult for the proposed candidates to reach the minimum of 13 votes that they need to be appointed. The places that must be awarded are eight, including two for magistrates in the Civil Chamber, and another in the Social Chamber of the Supreme Court. The appointments of the presidencies of the Superior Court of the Basque Country and the Canary Islands are also pending. It could happen that both for these positions and for the two pending presidencies of Provincial Courts, for example, there were possibilities of agreement, but at the moment it has not been possible to secure the necessary thirteen votes for all of them. And in these cases operate the risks of a house of cards. / JOSÉ MARÍA BRUNET