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The Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, has criticized this Tuesday the attitude of the Popular Party in the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

"The leaders of the PP should look at themselves in the mirror and reflect on whether they are complying with the Constitution. [...] I think they are running out of all grace periods and I think the State is not going to allow it, I don't know He will forgive him. "

Campo has appeared after the Council of Ministers to report on the presentation of the preliminary draft of the procedural efficiency law, a rule that seeks to "give a response as agile as possible to the increase in litigation caused by the pandemic."

After their initial explanations about the draft, the questions have focused on the renewal of the Council, which has served two years in office.

Today precisely the Plenary of Congress debates the proposal of the PSOE and Podemos to limit the activities that the CGPJ could develop in those circumstances.

Despite the criticism received from European instances of plans such as those that the Government has proposed for the Judiciary, Campo has argued that the idea of ​​limiting the powers of the CGPJ "is in line" of the report of the European Commission on the election of the organs of the Judiciary.

"The only thing that is expected is that in certain circumstances, when the renewal date has passed, the Council will see its powers limited and diminished, in this case the most important appointments of the judicial leadership. I think it responds to a sense highly democratic. It is the Constitution that says that the mandate is five years and the law, that the members cannot repeat, "the minister declared.

On the renewal of the organ, he has affirmed that it produces "blush" that the PP is acting "to the detriment of party interests."

"There is a government that is concerned with building, modernizing, trying to get everyone to go hand in hand in order to build a public service as essential as Justice and there are others who stubbornly try to block it. The renewal of the Constitutional and the Council is not debatable, there is a constitutional mandate. The PP is being part-time constitutionalist and that is not acceptable in a democracy, "he added.

In recent weeks, the Government has had to give explanations to the EU about its first proposal to force the renewal, that of reducing the necessary majority of the Chambers to designate the new members.

Campo himself had to do it before the EU Justice Commissioner,

Didier Reynders

.

Earlier, the

Group of States against Corruption

(Greco), dependent on the Council of Europe, had sent a letter to the Ministry explaining that the reform could involve "a violation of anti-corruption norms."

The week before the government took the proposal to lower the necessary majorities to Parliament, the European Commission had explicitly criticized a very similar measure adopted by Poland.

In Spain, this Tuesday the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP in Congress,

Cuca Gamarra

, confirmed that the Popular Group will vote against taking into consideration the proposed law of the PSOE and United We Can.

In his view, it is one more "twist to interfere" in the Judiciary.

Vox and Ciudadanos have also announced that they will oppose limiting the functions of the Council until its renewal.

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