The renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary is making waters again due to the
growing tension
between the Government and the PP after the publication in EL PAÍS of the agreement reached by the Executive with the previous leadership of the PP.
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, the Government's negotiator for this matter, has accused the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of "not being trustworthy" on Wednesday because "he does not comply with what his party signs", in reference to that pact to reform the law of the Judiciary and with which it was intended to unblock the renewal of the Constitutional Court while an agreement was sought for the Judiciary.
In parallel, the new leadership of the PP has admitted today in public, what they had already recognized to EL PAÍS last Monday, that is, that they were aware of the document that this newspaper has published, but the popular negotiator, Esteban González Pons,
He has assured that he did not transfer it to Feijóo because he did not consider it as part of the negotiation.
Bolaños' words about the leader of the PP show how far the understanding between the two main parties is to end the country's greatest institutional anomaly, the lack of renewal of the governing body of the judges, pending for 1,352 days.
In Feijóo's first meeting with Sánchez in La Moncloa after being elected president of the PP, both agreed to resume negotiations.
Feijóo asked for time to appoint a new interlocutor.
He took, according to the Government, longer than expected, and finally announced the name of Esteban González Pons, who assumed the portfolio of Justice in the new organizational chart of the PP.
Executive sources explain that Feijóo assured Pedro Sánchez of his intention to resolve the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
The Minister of the Presidency considers that the leader of the opposition lied in the interview in EL PAÍS, in which he maintained that he did not have "the text" of the agreement between the PP and the PSOE to modify the organic law of the Judicial Power, from so that the appointment of magistrates of the Constitutional Court could be unblocked.
Asked if the party had even signed it, its leader said: “We don't have it.
I think a list was agreed, that's what they told me.
Nothing more".
“If you have that text, I will appreciate it.
I don't have it”, he riveted.
In reality, the PP did agree to the document, because Bolaños showed it to González Pons at one of his meetings, as he has acknowledged in public today.
Government sources assure that Feijóo's team also had this text - the popular deny it - and that at first, they were told that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
“We don't have it.
I think a list was agreed, that's what they told me.
Nothing more".
“If you have that text, I will appreciate it.
I don't have it,” she riveted.
In reality, the PP did agree to the document, because Bolaños showed it to González Pons at one of his meetings, as he has acknowledged in public today.
Government sources assure that Feijóo's team also had this text - the popular deny it - and that at first, they were told that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
“We don't have it.
I think a list was agreed, that's what they told me.
Nothing more".
“If you have that text, I will appreciate it.
I don't have it,” she riveted.
In reality, the PP did agree to the document, because Bolaños showed it to González Pons at one of his meetings, as he has acknowledged in public today.
Government sources assure that Feijóo's team also had this text - the popular deny it - and that at first, they were told that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
riveted
In reality, the PP did agree to the document, because Bolaños showed it to González Pons at one of his meetings, as he has acknowledged in public today.
Government sources assure that Feijóo's team also had this text - the popular deny it - and that at first, they were told that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
riveted
In reality, the PP did agree to the document, because Bolaños showed it to González Pons at one of his meetings, as he has acknowledged in public today.
Government sources assure that Feijóo's team also had this text - the popular deny it - and that at first, they were told that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
They told them that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
They told them that it was not going to be necessary to execute that agreement because their intention was to renew the entire General Council of the Judiciary.
The PP assures, however, that from the first moment they communicated to Bolaños that the negotiations had to “start from scratch”.
González Pons admitted this Wednesday in an interview on TVE that the Minister of the Presidency showed him the document published by this newspaper, as well as "others" also agreed [on November 3, 2021 they modified the agreement of October 21 to leave without effect the part related to the renewal of the Data Protection Agency, which at first entered the same package as the members of the Constitutional Court, the Court of Auditors and the Ombudsman], but he assures that he refused to read them and that he did not inform Feijóo about them "because they were not part of the negotiation."
The day before, however, the deputy secretary for regional and local coordination of the PP, Pedro Rollán,
He had affirmed in a press conference that the first ones who did not give “rank of validity” to that previous agreement were those of the Government because then they would have claimed them before having fulfilled it.
The minister of the presidency assures that he did it on a dozen occasions, in meetings and telephone conversations.
Among them, the one recognized by González Pons himself: “Bolaños put that document on the table for me the first day we sat down”.
deadlocked conversations
The Government accuses the leader of the PP of lying because he did know of the existence of those previous agreements.
“With what we have learned these days, we already know that Feijóo is not to be trusted.
He was caught lying in an interview.
He does not comply with the Constitution, he does not comply with the law and he does not comply with what his party signs, ”Bolaños said Wednesday in statements to Efe.
Bolaños considers that from this "lie", the popular have entered "a carousel of cheap excuses and lies about lies to cover the falsehood that Mr. Feijóo said in his interview."
“First they said that the agreement did not bind them.
Second, that the Government never demanded compliance.
About a dozen times we have demanded compliance from the PP.
The President of the Government himself, Mr. Feijóo, and I,
The talks return to a deadlock after the disclosure of the document and the clash between the Government and the PP.
Consequently, the Judiciary does not resolve its blockade problem, despite the fact that the PP also recognizes that the situation is "desperate" for justice.
Government sources admit that the last window for agreements was this, with Vox in the doldrums and before the pre-campaign of the regional and municipal electoral cycle begins, which will be held in the spring of 2023.
González Pons has not spoken with Bolaños after the revelation of the agreement, according to what he said today, but despite this he has asked the minister to call him and resume contacts.
“We are open to negotiating, what we are all playing for is very important.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, also assured on Tuesday that they are willing to sit down to negotiate and immediately renew the CGPJ if the PP renounces what he called an “obstructionist” attitude.