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Firm call to the PP to sit down to negotiate and the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (

CGPJ

).

After the reluctance shown by the European Commission, which is aware of the proposed reform of the organic law of the Judiciary to reduce the qualified majority of three fifths of the PSOE and Podemos and follows this matter "closely", and that the The PP has shown in the last hours a certain willingness to agree on the election of a new governing body of the judges, the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, has asked this Friday from Brussels to resume the talks.

"Already", he has said, on several occasions, in his appearance after the end of the European Council.

"Tomorrow," he repeated, an agreement could be closed on the premises of which "99%" was reached this summer and that Pablo Casado, maintains, broke "unilaterally."

Despite his offer, the president does not put forward the withdrawal of the legislative reform launched by PSOE and Podemos because it is a responsibility of the "Legislative Power."

With this subterfuge, as if the spokesmen of the two parties, Adriana Lastra and Pablo Echenique, were two autonomous leaders, he has avoided compromising it.

But he has defended that the Executive is "more than willing to reach an agreement now, without waiting another second."

And that this whole issue has an "easy solution".

"We are ready to sit down again" to "reach an agreement as soon as possible."

"I have been waiting two years for Mr. Casado to renew the CGPJ," he said.

Shortly before Pedro Sánchez spoke, the Government spokesperson and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, denied in some statements that the EU had given a "slap on the wrist" to Spain and stated that there has been "absolute disloyalty "of the PP when transferring something that" is a lie ".

He defended that Europe is aware that Spain is one of the EU countries with the highest "standards" of democratic quality, and this has been transmitted in all its reports.

In the last one, he recalled, the renewal of the CGPJ was requested.

Montero pointed out that "we are talking about is the governing body of the judges" and the judges, he added, "are state officials, they get their position by competitive examination and their independence is guaranteed."

The point is that the PP "does not comply" with its constitutional mandate and is "deteriorating" the CGPJ and the parties have taken the initiative.

"This blockade is not understood, which has been preventing renewal for two years."

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