Reactions to the Constitutional decision, live | ERC, Bildu and Más País rule out disobedience and support approving the reform with a different procedure

EL PAÍS offers the last hour of the plenary session of the Constitutional Court free of charge as a public service.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Tuesday that the Government will take "as many measures as are necessary to end the blockade of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Power", after the Constitutional Court has approved the precautionary measures that the PP had requested to prevent the Senate from voting on the reform of the court itself.

Sánchez has conveyed to the citizens a message of "serenity" and "firmness" and has insisted on the need to "make the Constitution and the decision of the citizens prevail", in what he has described as a "clash of institutions so unprecedented" .

The institutional declaration of the president follows those already made last night by the highest representatives of the legislative power (Meritxell Batet, president of Congress, and Ander Gil, of the Senate).

The Constitutional Court approved last night,

thanks to the conservative majority that controls it, stop the vote scheduled for Thursday in the Senate on the reform that affects the renewal of the guarantee body itself, an unprecedented event in Spanish democracy.

This morning the Senate table met on an extraordinary basis, in which it has reaffirmed its compliance with the resolution, has eliminated the vote on the reform of the court from the agenda and has announced "an appeal" against the decision already adopted at night, by six votes to five.

The groups to the left of the PSOE are making calls this morning for a joint response to the "coup" of the Constitutional.

ERC, Bildu and Más País have expressly ruled out disobeying the court and are committed to legislative measures to move forward with the renewal of the Constitutional Court.

Meanwhile, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, promoter of the veto, also plans to appear at 1:30 p.m. today.

Meanwhile, the Judiciary holds the extraordinary plenary session to vote on the appointments of the candidates César Tolosa, Pablo Lucas and José Manuel Bandrés to magistrates for the Constitutional Court, although it is likely that none will come out because there are no majorities.

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Pedro Sánchez: "The Government will adopt as many measures as necessary to end the blockade of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Power"

The institutional declaration of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in La Moncloa continues: "The Government abides, although we do not share it, the resolution adopted yesterday by the current conservative majority of the Constitutional and in accordance with the law in accordance with the Constitution, the Government will adopt as many measures are necessary to put an end to the unjustifiable blockade of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court, and consequently so that the Constitution and the general will expressed in the 2019 general elections are respected. In times of uncertainty, serenity and firmness are required, to make prevail the Constitution and the decision of the citizens".

The appearance from La Moncloa de Sánchez concludes.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:35

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Guide to not get lost in the anger of the Constitutional Court

Jose Juan Morales Elsa Cabria

In order to have control over the majority of the magistrates, the rules in the body and in Congress have been pushed to the limit.

We spoke with José Manuel Romero, deputy director of the newspaper

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:51

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María Luisa Balaguer: "It is outrageous to dictate measures to the Senate for injuries produced in Congress"

Jose Manuel Romero

María Luisa Balaguer (Almería, 1953) is a professor of Constitutional Law and a magistrate of the Constitutional Court.

In the next few hours, he will sign one of the five individual votes, all from the progressive sector, against the decision taken the day before by the conservative majority of the court: to suspend the processing of two parliamentary amendments presented by the PSOE and Unidas Podemos that modify the election system and validation of magistrates in the General Council of the Judiciary and in the Constitutional Court itself.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:50

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See the full statement of the President of the Government

This is the institutional declaration that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, made this morning from La Moncloa, in which he announced that he will adopt "as many measures as are necessary to end the blockade of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court"

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:43

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Patxi López affirms that the PP seeks "institutional chaos"

Patxi López, spokesman for the PSOE, is appearing in Congress, where he has announced initiatives to continue with the reforms "and change magistrates with expired terms."

"We will do with the law what corresponds to us."

Before he had said: "The right wants institutional chaos, but we are going to firmly defend popular sovereignty and the autonomy of the Legislative Power."

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:44

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Patxi López, PSOE spokesperson: "These are judges preventing the Spanish people from legislating"

Patxi López, spokesperson for the PSOE, is appearing at a press conference in the Congress of Deputies: "Judges entrenched in positions that do not correspond to them, adopting decisions that do not correspond to them. Judges with their mandate expired deciding not to renew it. There are no precedents neither in Spain nor in any democratic country. Some judges paralyzing legislation by the Spanish people. There are those who want to achieve what they have not achieved at the polls through the courts, that is why they do not change the Judiciary...Yesterday Feijóo arrived at to say that he is not renewing it to protect it from the Government and that he will do whatever it takes to prevent renewal".

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:43

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Verstrynge (Podemos) considers that the decision of the TC "sets a dangerous precedent"

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of Podemos and Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda, Lilith Verstrynge, has considered this Tuesday that the decision of the Constitutional Court "sets a dangerous precedent".

In statements to the media in Congress, the leader of Podemos has described as "worrying" that "the right wing of the TC has decided to intervene in popular sovereignty."

The Secretary of Organization in the Executive of Ione Belarra has justified the call announced this morning to the rest of the parliamentary groups in the need to seek "solutions and alternatives" to "an exceptional issue".

Sources from United We Can have specified that the contacts to hold this party meeting have begun, although they acknowledge that there is not yet a date set for the meeting.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:38

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Institutional declaration of Pedro Sánchez: "I want to convey to the citizens a message of serenity"

Institutional statement by Pedro Sánchez: "I understand the indignation of many democrats at feeling their rights violated and the bewilderment of citizens in such an unprecedented clash of institutions. I want to convey to citizens a message of serenity." 

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:25

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Institutional statement by Pedro Sánchez: "The PP has thrown up different pretexts and excuses to retain by spurious means a power that does not correspond to it"

Institutional statement by Pedro Sánchez: "This blockade has been in place for four years. And we have denounced it and in different directions, but the PP has thrown up different pretexts and excuses to retain by spurious means a power that does not correspond to it"

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:23

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Institutional declaration of Pedro Sánchez

Institutional statement by Pedro Sánchez: "Yesterday an unprecedented decision was approved in democracy (...). This situation has its origin in the decision of the PP that it adopted when losing the elections of failing to comply with the constitutional mandate."

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:22

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Congress meets in the Constitutional

"After receiving the notification from the Constitutional Court this past dawn, the Congress Table has agreed to appear in the procedure on behalf and defense of the chamber, and will present allegations in the coming days."

This is how Congress has communicated its decision to appeal the decision made last night by the guarantee court.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:19

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ERC rejects disobedience and advocates retaking the reform with a different procedure

ERC and Más País advocate avoiding a direct clash with the Constitutional Court and seeking another legal procedure that allows the reform to be resumed to facilitate the renewal of its members.

The formation of Íñigo Errejón already took the initiative the same Monday night and presented a bill with that objective.

The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has also advocated for this solution after flatly ruling out the disobedience that some other leftist leaders have defended.

"Disobedience without a plan is a giant with feet of clay, it is confetti," said Rufián, who has insisted on equating the TC's decision to the legal proceedings against the Parliament of Catalonia in response to the challenge of the process.

Errejón has denounced that the guarantee court "has broken all the institutional balances of the 78 regime" and that its members "have behaved like PP deputies, who instead of defending the law obey Mr. Feijóo."

"What it is about is that the same people always govern. When they win at the polls because they win and when they don't because they hijack the institutions," denounced the leader of Más País.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:19

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Read the press release from the Constitutional Court

In case you missed it, this is the letter that the Constitutional Court released to the press at 11:35 p.m. on Monday to announce the veto of the Senate vote on the amendment to renew the court itself.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 10:11

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Feijóo announces an urgent appearance at 1:30 p.m.

The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will appear at the PP headquarters at 1:30 p.m., after his party achieved that the Constitutional Court prevented the Senate from voting on an amendment to renew the court itself.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:57

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Cuca Gamarra asks Sánchez to "reconvene" those who ask to respond to the Constitutional

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, asks Pedro Sánchez to remonstrate with those who call not to respect the resolution of the Constitutional Court: "The way to depart from compliance with the resolutions of the Constitutional Court is authoritarianism and taking steps towards a regime that it is not the constitutional framework.

I not only hope that he does not go down that path, what I hope is that the President of the Government is the first to rectify those who say that we must take that path.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:56

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Errejón: "The PP is breaking the balance of the 78 system". 

Íñigo Errejón (Más País): "The deputies are with our mandate in order, legitimate, voted for by the citizens, and those who did this have their mandate expired... if I did not have the mandate, I would not come. The majority that voted yesterday it has expired and has no legitimacy and sets a very dangerous precedent. This takes us into unknown terrain, not provided for in the legal system of 78. The PP is breaking the balance of the 78 system". 

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:54

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The groups to the left of the PSOE ask for a joint response "to the coup" of the Constitutional

Groups to the left of the PSOE are calling for a joint response to the "coup" by the Constitutional Court, but without specifying what measures should be taken.

The spokesperson for EH Bildu in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, has moved along these lines.

On the one hand, the Abertzale spokesperson has defended that the time has come to "put an end to the mortgages of the 78 regime" and to "enforce the plurinational parliamentary majority to be respected in the face of the offensive of the judicial and media political right against the social majority". .

Beyond that, Aizpurua has not specified more.

She has avoided calling for disobedience, as some leaders of Unidas Podemos have done,

More explicitly, Mireia Vehì, from the CUP, has asked that Congress react as the pro-independence majority in the Catalan Parliament did during the days of the process: "When a Parliament is run over, popular sovereignty must be defended."

Peripheral nationalists are emphasizing linking the open crisis with the judicial response that the Catalan independence challenge had in its day.

Aizpurua has also evoked old actions against the Basque independence movement without going into more detail.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:41

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We can: "Unprecedented blow to the rule of law"

We can: "Unprecedented blow to the rule of law. The right wing of the Constitutional Court intervenes in the constitutional powers of the Legislative Branch, preventing a vote at the seat of popular sovereignty. It is time to respond with more democracy"

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:33

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Sánchez announces an institutional declaration

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will make an institutional declaration at 11:00 to assess the decision adopted yesterday by the Plenary of the Constitutional Court.

The appearance is prior to the Council of Ministers.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:17

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And see the statement of the president of the Senate, who today has changed the agenda

See the institutional declaration made last night by Ander Gil, president of the Senate, after the Constitutional vetoed the vote on the amendment for the renewal of the court itself.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:15

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See the statement made last night by the president of Congress

See the institutional statement made last night by the president of Congress, the socialist Meritxell Batet, made last night, even before receiving the official notification from the Constitutional Court (TC) that interrupted the processing of the law that sought to reform part of the election system of the magistrates of that body.

ACT.20 DEC 2022 - 09:13

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El tribunal de garantías aprecia en el recurso del PP “trascendencia constitucional” y “repercusión social”

José María Brunet

El Tribunal Constitucional dio a conocer en la noche de este lunes la parte dispositiva ―los principales acuerdos― de su auto para paralizar la labor del Senado en relación con la ley que debía facilitar la renovación del propio tribunal de garantías. En este texto, la mayoría conservadora del órgano de garantías afirma que admite el recurso de amparo que presentó el PP porque considera que supone “una especial trascendencia constitucional”, además de entender que tiene una “relevante y general repercusión social”.

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 09:07

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Lea el texto con el que Tribunal Constitucional veta que el Senado vote sobre su renovación

El País

El Tribunal Constitucional ha comunicado al Senado y al Congreso la prohibición de votar el jueves que viene la enmienda para renovar el órgano de garantías, una medida inédita en democracia que ha sido impulsada por el PP de Alberto Núñez Feijóo y aprobada por los magistrados que nombró el PP y que controlan la corte.  Lea el texto íntegro de la comunicación al Senado del veto a votar la renovación del Constitucional impuesta por el sector conservador del tribunal, que ha apreciado en el escrito del PP “una especial trascendencia constitucional” y una “relevante y general repercusión social”.

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:58

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Xosé Hermida

El BNG pide "para a este Feijóo golpista"

El diputado del BNG Néstor Rego también ha pedido una reacción del conjunto de fuerzas políticas “en defensa de los principios democráticos”. “Es necesario parar a esta ultraderecha golpista, a este PP golpista, a este Feijóo golpista”, ha dicho el diputado gallego.

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:43

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José Marcos

El Senado cambia el orden del día y recurre al Constitucional

La Mesa del Senado ha mantenido esta mañana una reunión extraordinaria en la que se ha acordado por 4 votos a favor (3 PSOE más 1 PNV) y 3 en contra (PP) lo siguiente:

"1.    Acusar recibo, personarse y ser parte en el recurso de amparo avocado número 8263-2002, disponiendo que la representación y defensa de la Cámara sea asignada, de conformidad con el Estatuto del Personal de las Cortes Generales, a la Letrada de las Cortes Generales, doña Isabel María Abellán Matesanz, Directora de la Asesoría Jurídica de la Secretaría General del Senado, con quien se entenderán las sucesivas diligencias y trámites.

2.    Continuar la tramitación de la Proposición de Ley Orgánica de transposición de directivas europeas y otras disposiciones para la adaptación de la legislación penal al ordenamiento de la Unión Europea, y reforma de los delitos contra la integridad moral, desórdenes públicos y contrabando de armas de doble uso, con la excepción de las disposiciones transitorias cuarta y quinta y las disposiciones finales primera y segunda, apartado cuarto, cuya tramitación ha sido suspendida cautelarmente por el Tribunal Constitucional. 

3.    Comunicar el presente acuerdo al Tribunal Constitucional, a la Comisión de Justicia, a los Grupos Parlamentarios y al Congreso de los Diputados.

A las 11 de la mañana la Mesa del Senado se reunirá de nuevo, esta vez de forma ordinaria, para la modificación del orden  del Pleno conforme a lo requerido.

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:43

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El País

Ione Belarra: "Pedimos una reunión urgente a la mayoría progresista y plurinacional”

La secretaria general de Podemos, Ione Belarra, en redes: “Es necesario abordar con urgencia la renovación del CGPJ, secuestrado por el PP desde hace 4 años. Necesitamos frenar este ataque sin precedentes a la democracia con más democracia. Pedimos una reunión urgente a la mayoría progresista y plurinacional”

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:37

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El País

Echenique: "Un poder judicial sin legitimidad democrática ha dado un golpe al poder legislativo"

Echenique: "Hemos pedido a los grupos de la mayoría parlamentaria progresista y plurinacional una reunión para tratar el desbloqueo inmediato del CGPJ y el TC."

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:18

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José Marcos

El Senado cambia el orden del día

A las 8.30 se ha reunido la Mesa de la Cámara Alta con carácter extraordinario para analizar el escrito del Tribunal Constitucional, estudiar las consecuencias, dar traslado a los grupos parlamentarios y adoptar las medidas pertinentes. A las 11.00, como estaba previsto antes de la decisión de anoche del tribunal, está convocada una Mesa ordinaria del Senado donde se modificaría el orden del día del pleno del jueves y se retirarían, según trasladan fuentes de la Cámara Alta, las enmiendas con las que el Gobierno pretendía modificar de forma parcial el sistema de elección de los componentes del TC. La reunión de la Mesa del Senado hoy a las 8.30, que fue convocada de manera extraordinaria pasada la medianoche aunque fuentes de la Cámara afirman que sus componentes estaba sobre aviso desde media tarde, se produce antes de la celebración de la comisión de Justicia, que está fijada para las 9.15.

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:07

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El Senado se reúne para decidir cómo aplica el veto del Constitucional

Buenos días: 

El Tribunal Constitucional (TC) aprobó anoche, gracias a la mayoría conservadora que lo controla, frenar la votación prevista el jueves en el Senado sobre la reforma que afecta a su propia renovación, un hecho inédito en la democracia española. Esta misma mañana se ha reunido la mesa del Senado con carácter extraordinario para analizar las consecuencias prácticas de la decisión del organismo de garantías, aprobada por seis votos a cinco. Los magistrados que han rechazado frenar el trámite legislativo de la reforma del propio Constitucional, del sector progresista, han anunciado voto particular. El alto tribunal, tras una jornada de vértigo, aprobó casi a medianoche las medidas cautelares que había solicitado el PP para suspender la tramitación parlamentaria de la reforma, esto es, para impedir la votación en la Cámara alta, que hoy celebra pleno, como finalmente ha ocurrido. Los presidentes de ambas sedes legislativas, Meritxell Batet (Congreso) y Ander Gil (Senado) hicieron anoche sendas declaraciones institucionales, donde alertaron del peligro de deslegitimación de las instituciones, pero dejaron claro su acatamiento a la resolución. Mientras, el Poder Judicial celebra el pleno extraordinario para votar los nombramientos de los candidatos César Tolosa, Pablo Lucas y José Manuel Bandrés, a magistrados para el Tribunal Constitucional, aunque es probable que no salga ninguno porque no hay mayorías. La votación de anoche en la corte de garantías fue posible porque el bloque conservador rechazó las recusaciones de sus dos magistrados afectados por la reforma (el presidente del tribunal, Pedro González-Trevijano y el magistrado de Antonio Narváez), ambos con el mandato caducado que pueden seguir en el puesto. Siga en directo el desarrollo del pleno del Senado y de la reunión del Poder Judicial.

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 08:05

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Xosé Hermida

Meritxell Batet alerta del “peligro de deslegitimación de las instituciones”

Xosé Hermida

La presidenta del Congreso y el del Senado, Ander Gil, advierten del peligro de “degradación” del sistema democrático

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:56

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Carlos E. CuéPaula Chouza

LA REFORMA DEL CONSTITUCIONAL

Bolaños, sobre la decisión del Constitucional: “Es de una gravedad máxima, afecta a la separación de poderes, pero debe acatarse”

Carlos E. CuéPaula Chouza

El Gobierno culpa al PP de querer controlar el Parlamento “cuando es mayoría y cuando no lo es”

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:54

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El Tribunal Constitucional y los riesgos de retroceso democrático

Joaquim Bosch

A pesar de ello, ante los llamamientos a la desobediencia o a no acatar la resolución, la prudencia institucional resulta aconsejable

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:30

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Víctor Lapuente

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Señorías, cálmense

Víctor Lapuente

Tanto el Gobierno como el Tribunal Constitucional se equivocan. Pero ni el uno ni el otro están hiriendo de muerte a la democracia

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:15

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Pedro Cruz Villalón

Jueves negro para la democracia española

Pedro Cruz Villalón

En el fondo de la crisis constitucional están los hábitos mentales de los dos grandes partidos acostumbrados a repartirse el CGPJ, descartando cualquier alternativa. Lo más urgente ahora es interrumpir la alarmante escalada de violencia verbal

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:13

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Reyes Rincón

La decisión del Constitucional deja en el aire el nombramiento de los dos magistrados que corresponde elegir al Poder Judicial

Reyes Rincón

Los vocales se reúnen este martes sin visos de un acuerdo para renovar el tribunal de garantías

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:10

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José Juan MoralesElsa Cabria

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‘Podcast’ | Guía para no perderse en la bronca del Tribunal Constitucional

José Juan MoralesElsa Cabria

Para tener el control de la mayoría de los magistrados, se han llevado al límite las reglas en el órgano y en el Congreso. Hablamos con José Manuel Romero, subdirector del periódico

Madrid (ESPAÑA)

ACT.20 DIC 2022 - 07:08

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El País

Hasta aquí el seguimiento del debate del Constitucional. El Tribual ha aprobado, por seis votos a favor y cinco en contra, frenar la votación prevista el próximo jueves en el Senado sobre la reforma que afecta a su propia renovación. En una jornada de vértigo, los magistrados han acordado primero rechazar la recusación de dos magistrados afectados por la reforma -el presidente del tribunal, Pedro González-Trevijano y de Antonio Narváez, ambos conservadores y con el mandato caducado-. Gracias por seguirnos.

ACT.19 DIC 2022 - 23:42

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El País

Enrique Santiago (PCE): "El TC vulneró la soberanía popular"

Enrique Santiago, diputado de UP y líder del PCE también ha criticado en su cuenta de Twitter lo sucedido: "El TC vulneró la soberanía popular. Una agresión a la democracia por quien debe protegerla. Procede actuar con firmeza: recurso ante los tribunales, iniciativa legislativa y llamamiento a la ciudadanía a que defienda la democracia y exija a la derecha que cumpla la Constitución". 

ACT.19 DIC 2022 - 23:32

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