The PP will register a bill in Congress on Monday to change the system for electing the members of the General Council of the Judiciary.

It is a kind of "counter-reform" that seeks to confront the legal changes that the Government has proposed so that the upper echelons of the Judiciary are elected by the majority of Congress, and which has drawn criticism from Brussels.

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will base their initiative on the amendment that they introduced in the Senate in November 2018, and that was approved by an absolute majority (the PP was the majority force, at that time), but it fell in Congress.

The new text will establish that "the members of the CGPJ of judicial origin will be elected by all the judges and magistrates who are in active service."

Said election would be carried out "by personal, equal, direct and secret vote."

"Sánchez cannot launch a smokescreen due to the commotion that has arisen in Brussels on this issue after the action deployed by the Popular Party after Pablo Casado's visit" to Brussels, PP sources assure this newspaper.

Pablo Casado's team places three conditions on the Government to negotiate the renewal of the CGPJ.

The first, "to withdraw a proposal for the reform of the Council's election that is contrary to the Constitution and European treaties and that goes against judicial independence and the separation of powers."

The second, "that Podemos has nothing to do with this process as an accused party that attacks the King and the judiciary."

And the third, "to accept our claim to depoliticize the process that we have been raising for months and that we will register in Congress next Monday since it was rejected two years ago," the same sources point out.

The secretary of Justice of the PP, Enrique López, said this Friday that the PP wants to "work for the depoliticization of the image of the CGPJ and that it is not a distribution of stickers."

The objective is, according to López, "to advance this depoliticization and for the institution to be increasingly democratically stronger and to better fulfill its objective, which is to defend the independence of the judges."

For the PP, "between the ideal system, which is the one proposed by the parents of the Constitution, that the members are chosen by the judges and that Pablo Iglesias elects the judges there is a middle ground", he has conceded, in a way of tending the hand to the PSOE.

"And it is necessary to look for that balance that protects the Constitution and fortifies the institution, because the reform of PSOE and UP goes in the opposite line", has added, in Onda Cero.

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