The Government has been deeply upset that the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has spoken out against the reform that they have promoted to limit their functions, when they have concluded their mandate, which Congress began to process on Tuesday.

The CGPJ approved on Thursday a declaration in which it asks Parliament to submit to its criteria, that of the judges' associations and the Venice Commission this modification of the law of the Judiciary.

And this morning the first vice president, Carmen Calvo, has revealed her anger.

"No power can invade parliamentary sovereignty."

"The independence of the three powers of the State, the Judicial, the Legislative and the Executive, is round-trip. In other words, we all have to comply with it," he assured in a statement to the media.

A reflection that he later repeated in an interview in La Sexta in which he described this statement as "unusual" and where he revealed that one day before the Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, called the president of the CGPJ, Carlos Lesmes, to convey to him, precisely, that "everyone stays in their place".

The Executive thus fuels the litigation it maintains with Lesmes, who from Moncloa has already been responsible for stirring up the confrontation with the King by revealing his alleged discomfort over the veto of his presence in an act in Barcelona.

Calvo has defended that the CGPJ is putting representative democracy "in solfa". "It should be in obedience to what Parliament says even if it does not agree."

According to the vice president, the reform to prevent the CGPJ from being able to make an appointment when it is in office "is not a whim" of the PSOE and Unidos Podemos but the result of the fact that it has expired for two years.

However, the Government could have promoted this reform in the Council of Ministers, which would have required a whole series of reports, instead of a bill from the parliamentary groups.

Despite the fact that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, spoke this week with the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, about the renewal of the CGPJ and the conversation ended without any progress, Calvo has maintained today that they will still wait a "reasonable time", that pass the Catalan elections of February 14, to try to reach an agreement.

Regarding the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI), an issue that faces PSOE and United We Can, the vice president has assured today that "now it will not" rise, as requested by the purple formation, but that "it will have to continue rising."

Regarding the prohibition of evictions, an issue that has also divided the two partners, has taken for granted that it will be approved, probably, at the last meeting of the Council of Ministers of the year.

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