Conservative prosecutors encourage Feijóo to dismantle laws of the Government of Sánchez

2023-05-02T10:46:10.633Z

Narváez, from the Supreme Court, wanted a PP government and warned about PSE pacts with “filoetarras”. The popular leader announced an urgent counter-reform

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will undertake an urgent counter-reform if he governs through a bill that addresses various matters to repeal some of the regulations approved by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

The popular leader conveyed this idea to fifty prosecutors affiliated with the majority conservative association during a dinner held on April 18 at the Claridge Hotel in Madrid.

"We will recover the crime of sedition, which can be called another way, as constitutional disloyalty, and the illegal referendum," he announced.

The meeting allowed prosecutors with relevant positions in the Supreme Court to harshly attack the Government, show their support for the ideas of the PP leader and ask him about the measures he would apply to resolve the alleged "lack of democracy in legislative procedures" of the recent years or before the problem of territorial cohesion that Spain is experiencing as a consequence, they indicated, of the "alliance of the socialists with the filoetarras of Bildu".

One of the prosecutors who intervened, Antonio Narváez, a Constitutional Court magistrate until a few months ago, came to express his wish, in a personal capacity, that Feijóo become president of the Government.

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trans law.

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EL PAÍS has summarized the hour and a half of conversation between Feijóo and the prosecutors after consulting various sources familiar with what happened in that appointment.

Cristina Dexeus, dean of the prosecutors of the Provincial Court of Barcelona and host of the meeting as president of the Association of Prosecutors, presented Feijóo as a key politician for the future of Spain, president of a party "that can influence legislative reforms and even in the future it may have decision-making capacity to improve the Administration of justice”.

Dexeus assured that Feijóo had a "good background" due to the technical positions held and the four absolute majorities achieved in Galicia.

The president of the Association of Prosecutors confessed that she shared a phrase from Feijóo read in an interview: "My hair stands on end when I listen to the Spanish anthem."

Feijóo: "I thank the prosecutors for restoring the constitutional order."

The PP leader thanked the prosecutors for their work "who, being in key positions and receiving all kinds of pressure, restored the constitutional order that some politicians broke."

In the room was the former State Attorney General, Consuelo Madrigal, who brought the accusation along with three other colleagues in the Supreme Court trial against the Catalan leaders behind the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017 (1-O).

Consuelo Madrigal, in La Zarzuela in 2016.Sergio Barrenechea (EFE)

Consuelo Madrigal, former State Attorney General: "There is a perversion of the legislative procedure."

"In Spain the rule of decree law exists, but there is another more serious problem and that is the bills that are presented and that are processed through amendments where the wishes of minority groups become law."

Madrigal, who was the first to intervene during Feijóo's dinner with the prosecutors, was referring to the repeal of the crime of sedition and the reform of the crime of embezzlement through a bill that avoided the mandatory reports of the Judiciary or the Council of State and where the amendments presented by ERC to reduce the sentence of pro-independence leaders were incorporated at the last minute.

The application of the reform by the Supreme Court has not reduced the sentence for those convicted of 1-O on the understanding that these amendments are not applicable to the case.

And she pointed out:

“This perversion of the legislative procedure is linked to a perversion of the institution that we have experienced in recent years.

How can it be reversed?

How to return to serious, informed, democratic legislative procedures?

How to restore normal operation to the institution if one is tempted to do the same thing they did to rebalance, if we fall into the same procedure?

How would a beneficial regeneration be possible for all?

if we fall into the same procedure?

How would a beneficial regeneration be possible for all?

if we fall into the same procedure?

How would a beneficial regeneration be possible for all?

Feijóo: "We cannot endure an entire legislature to change those decree laws."

“We will limit the use of decree laws when they do not incorporate measures that will take effect immediately.

There are certain laws that must be repealed very quickly, immediately.

It will not be a bill limited to a single matter, but a very broad one.

We cannot endure an entire legislature to change a lot of decree laws approved by this Government with hardly any processing," Feijóo explained.

The PP leader assured prosecutors that Sánchez had approved more decree laws in four years than the governments of Felipe González had in 14 years in office.

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EL PAÍS asked the PP about this legislative plan by its leader to repeal laws of the current Government through a single and urgent regulation.

"There is nothing of the kind on record," sources close to Feijóo's team declared.

If the president of the PP arrives at La Moncloa, he will "analyze the current laws and see which ones have room for improvement", such as the

trans law

or the housing law, according to those same sources.

"A repeal is not an absolute withdrawal, but a renewal of a law," the PP leader's team insists, where, in any case, they stress that they are not in the habit of "revealing what Feijóo says in private meetings."

The leader of the PP remarked in that “private meeting” with prosecutors some of the arguments that he repeats every day against the Government: “Populism is damaging politics and it is in the Government.

Without ERC and Bildu there are no laws.

Never in Spain did the independentistas play such a decisive role.

The Criminal Code was never reformed in a month, nor were essential crimes repealed in any democracy to guarantee the integrity of the nation.

I have never seen a government so divided.

Before there were two parties and now there are three and one of them divided into 18 parties.

Now there are 20 parties in the Government.

No pronouncements have ever been seen from a government against the Council of the Judiciary and speaking of 'fachas con togas' or the 'blow of the robes'.

Antonio Narváez was sworn in as a Constitutional magistrate in 2014. Zipi (EFE)

Antonio Narváez, prosecutor of the Supreme Chamber: "A coalition of the PSE with the Bildu philoterrorists is taking shape."

Former magistrate of the Constitutional Court, Antonio Narváez now works as a prosecutor in the Contentious Chamber of the Supreme Court.

In his speech during the meeting with Feijóo, he referred to the problem of "territorial cohesion" and "fundamentally Catalonia", a matter on which Narváez had been inhibited during the processing in the Constitutional Court of a dozen appeals from pro-independence leaders doomed.

The defense of the high Catalan positions had challenged Narváez for a conference given in Granada where he equated what happened in Catalonia to a coup d'état.

Narváez also warned at dinner with Feijóo about one of the main problems that Spain has in the Basque Country because, as he explained, in the next elections to the Basque Parliament "a coalition strategy is being outlined, with Bildu, which is a philoterrorist organization, with the support of the Socialist Party of Euskadi and what is left of Podemos”.

Feijóo: "To the problem of Catalonia and the Basque Country, I would add Navarra".

“To the territorial problem raised by prosecutor Narváez, I would add Navarra, where Bildu has already agreed with the PSE.

I was in Cintruénigo with students who were concerned about politics.

We talked about ETA and only one of them knew Miguel Ángel Blanco and the smartest of all of them said that there were two factions and the one that had killed the most had been ETA and that it was against ETA.

It was a concerted school.

ETA stopped killing in 2011. Of the almost 900 murders, 300 have not been clarified with 2,500 injured and 16 and 17-year-olds don't know it.

We have a very serious problem."

Prosecutor Antonio Narváez: "The Government has deteriorated the institutions."

“I fully agree with the approach that Alberto [Núñez Feijóo] has made about the modification of the structure of the Council of the Judiciary.

The problem is whether there will be the political will to do it because we already had a bitter experience in 2014 in which with an absolute majority of the PP the law was not modified”.

After this reproach, Narváez criticized the Government of Pedro Sánchez for the "deterioration of the institutions, from the Constitutional to the Court of Accounts... there is even talk of an industry such as Indra, which is the one that controls the electoral processes electronically."

With this statement, Narváez launched suspicions similar to the accusations of PP leaders about the cleanliness of the upcoming electoral processes, given that the Government controlled Indra's advice through people trusted by him.

Prosecutor Narváez: "Hopefully" Feijóo reaches the Government.

Prosecutor Narváez explained to Feijóo that correcting this "drift" was quite "complicated by the spider web" that the Government was supposedly weaving and asked him to explain what his plans were in the "hypothetical case" that he became president of the Government: "Personally, I say that I hope and I signify myself, I am no longer in the Constitutional Court and I can signify myself as a citizen."

Narváez now works as a prosecutor in the Supreme Court in the Litigation Chamber that analyzes appeals against government decisions.

To conclude his intervention, the prosecutor predicted the problems that the application of the

trans law would cause.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in April in the Senate.

Lagencia / LaPresse (LAGENCIA)

Feijóo: "They have occupied the Constitutional Court, the State Attorney General's Office, the CNI, the CIS."

The PP leader is willing to modify the laws to avoid the political occupation of the institutions, according to his response to Narváez.

The Government of Pedro Sánchez appointed by hand, as all democratic governments have done, the main heads of the CNI and the CIS, and the magistrates of the Executive quota in the Constitutional Court.

Feijóo also recalled that gender self-determination was done before after two years of treatment prescribed by a doctor, while now with the

trans law,

a few minutes were enough to express a will in the registry.

Feijóo: “We have an SMS from the Government denying that they were going to reform the crime of sedition.

They lied to us."

Feijóo explained to the prosecutors why the renewal of the Judiciary is not possible, whose members have already had their mandate expired for four years due to the refusal of the PP to agree on the new composition.

The last leaders of the PP, both Pablo Casado before and Feijóo now, made all kinds of excuses to refuse to comply with the constitutional mandate to renew the General Council of the Judiciary, so that it has been four years with a conservative majority that does not correspond with what the law says.

“When we were negotiating the renewal, some journalistic information assured that the Government was negotiating with ERC the reform of the crime of sedition.

We asked and the Government denied it.

We have an SMS where they told us that it was a journalistic speculation.

I asked Sánchez if he was going to modify the crime of sedition and he told me that this had nothing to do with the renewal, that they were different things, although for me it was directly related.

After 20 minutes, I asked him again 'are you going to change the crime of sedition yes or no?'

And the answer was yes.

And with that we could not accept the renewal.

What has happened with the Criminal Code is a great cacicada for the benefit of politicians, who are the only ones who can commit the crimes of sedition and embezzlement.

We have a proposal to reform the General Council of the Judiciary.

Of the 20 members, there must be a quota chosen by the judges and another quota chosen by the Courts.

I don't know if it's 10 and 10, or 12 and 8, that can be negotiated”.