The vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diazhas ruled out the possibility of reaching an agreement with the PP on the renewal of the judges’ body, the CGPJ, and has proposed legislate so that only an absolute majority of the Congress of Deputies is required for renewal, and not the three-fifths that are now required.
In an interview at Chain Being On the occasion of May Day, Díaz has assured that she would be the first to try to reach an agreement with the PP, that she would remain sitting at a table “five days” if she saw it possible, but that she is “convinced that the PP “There is a deliberate strategy of hitting the Government” and it is not willing to negotiate. “Let’s legislate, respecting the constitutional mandate. Let’s try for that qualified majority of three-fifths for a period of time and if it is not met, let’s proceed to the absolute majority,” says the vice president as a means of overcoming the opposition of the main opposition party. “We have a Popular Party that is outside the walls,” she says.
The head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, already advanced this week that, if the PP maintains its position – the popular ones say that the law must be changed before renewing the members – The Government “will assume its responsibility” and the CGPJ will be renewedbut the ways to achieve this are not without problems.
Podemos has gone ahead of the PSOE and Sumar and this Tuesday presented a bill to limit the role of the Senate in the election of members and allow his election by absolute majority in the second round.
A previous attempt to reduce the majorities
In October 2020, when the CGPJ was approaching two years with its mandate expired, PSOE and Unidas Podemos promoted a reform in Congress to reduce majorities parliamentary elections required to elect the members of that body. They proposed that the twelve members of judicial extraction, who are now elected by a three-fifths majority of Parliament, could be appointed in a second vote by an absolute majority. but the initiative aroused the suspicions of the European Commission.
Before him touch of Brussels, Pedro Sánchez decided to leave this reform on hold and months later the then Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, promised the vice president of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Vera Jourová, that it would be definitively withdrawn.
