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Without offering much more details, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has advanced in an appearance in Brussels, after participating in the European Council, which will call the leader of the opposition, Pablo Casado, to see "if once and for all" the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the Constitutional Court and the Ombudsman is agreed.

A conversation aimed at unblocking a pact, which has been in the making for months, which the Government has closed on several occasions and which the PP denies.

Sánchez takes this step in order to be able to complete the conversations that the Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, has with the person in charge of this area in Genoa, Enrique López, to renew the CGPJ, which has expired for two years.

The popular, after the Executive is about to approve the 2021 Budgets with ERC and Bildu, had pointed out that there was no possibility of understanding, at least until after the Catalan elections on February 14.

This position has once again disconcerted the Government which, after months of talks and being about to close an agreement in the summer, wanted to seal it before the end of the year.

In this context, the conversations between Sánchez and Casado will take place.

But, in a preventive way, the Executive has promoted a reform of the Judicial Power to prevent the CGPJ from continuing to make appointments while it is in office.

The full Congress will approve next week the consideration of this bill by PSOE and Podemos and the forecast is that it will be definitively in force at the end of January.

While the Government has put aside its controversial proposal to change the election of the members of the CGPJ so that 12 of them only require the vote of an absolute majority and not three-fifths of the Chamber, which has been harshly censored in Europe.

The president has again today shown his support for Felipe VI by defending that he is no longer giving explanations about the scandals that affect his father, such as his recent fiscal regularization of money not declared to the Treasury, with "facts".

He has praised both his commitment to the "exemplary" and "transparency" of the Royal House as his willingness to "update" the Crown.

And as he did on Wednesday in an interview on Telecinco, he has repeated that "institutions are not judged but people," "not the Crown but the former head of state."

"As long as I am at the helm of the Government of Spain, the Constitution is going to be fulfilled," he stressed.

This statement comes despite the United We Can offensive against the monarchy, which has risen in recent days.

The chief executive has defended that Podemos and the PSOE are "two different parties", with "different cultures."

And that the Socialists, despite the fact that they supported the Republic in the constituent process, "we assume the Constitution in its entirety and not in pieces."

Sánchez has once again left it up to Zarzuela to decide whether or not Juan Carlos I can return to Spain at Christmas, as he would like, and has limited himself to remembering whether justice requires the King Emeritus and he has already assured that he would return.

And in case this indirect support offered to the Crown may cause him some wear and tear, he has reiterated that at the end of the holidays he already said that the information that had been known about the King Emeritus and his hidden fortune abroad seemed "disturbing" and "disturbing. "and he pointed out that all Spaniards have the" same obligations "and the" same rights ", thus answered the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who stated that the King is not the same as the rest of Spaniards.

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