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"It is the last straw that the Government says that, when the Court of Accounts is evaluating how much money the independentistas have embezzled, it is necessary to remove the stones from the road." Pablo Casado has accused the Executive of Pedro Sánchez this Monday of "blocking the work" and the renewal of the supervisory body, after the president and two ministers -José Luis Ábalos and Irene Montero- have shown their regret for the fact that this An independent institution can claim 5.4 million euros from the leaders of the 'procés' for having diverted public funds to the so-called 'Catalan embassies', Diplocat.

The president of the PP has referred to the renewal of the 12 councilors of the court, whose nine-year term ends on July 17.

"Does the PP block the renewal? Who is blocking the work of the Court of Accounts here?", Asked Casado, answering to himself that whoever does it is the Executive.

This has been assured, in Córdoba, by the president of the PP at the inauguration of a conference on "judicial independence and institutional regeneration", which will serve as preparation for the PP convention, to be held in October.

PP sources assure this newspaper that the negotiation to renew the Court of Accounts goes hand in hand with that of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

And since this one is stopped, the other one too.

"When the PSOE agrees to negotiate the renewal of the CGPJ" in the terms required by the PP, "we will negotiate both," they add.

In fact, Casado predicts that Sánchez wants to change the majority system of the supervisory body "for the cat flap", just as he tried to do with the CGPJ.

In other words, with a proposed law so that the renewal of the members of the Court is decided "by an absolute majority" (without having to agree with the PP) and not by a qualified majority of three-fifths of the deputies, as up to now.

"If the PSOE continues to block the renewal of the CGPJ, it is because they want to," emphasized the president of the PP. "For the Government, the independence of the Justice and the institutions that have to ensure that justice is done, such as the Court of Accounts or the regulators, are 'stones in the way'", Casado said, referring to an expression used by both Ábalos and Montero.

The Minister of Equality has advocated this Monday for "eliminating" the cases against former senior independence officials before the Court of Accounts and leaving "absolute prominence" to "politics, dialogue and agreement." In an interview on TVE, Montero has been in favor of doing without "everything that is not eminently political" considering it "difficulties" and "stones in a path" that the Government is going to travel "yes or yes".

Given these words, Casado has accused Irene Montero of advocating that the Court of Accounts "stop investigating."

"But what is this? Is this Venezuela? Is it Nicaragua? Is it Cuba?"

In his opinion, the PP does not "block" the renewal of the Court of Accounts because "it would renew it tomorrow, if we reinforce the independence" of its work.

And, on the contrary, it does seem to him that Sánchez is torpedoing him, because he says "we are going to name them by hand [the new councilors] but you stay away, otherwise we will say that you are blocking."

"If you want to renew the institutions of the State, let's do it following the mandate of the Spanish Constitution", has settled the president of the PP, for whom "the Government of Sánchez is the one that has run over the institutions in history the most."

The general secretary of the Andalusian PP, Loles López, also participated in the event in Córdoba, who assured that "the Government has paralyzed the CGPJ because of the control it wants to have" over the judges.

"How do you explain to citizens that those who wanted to break Spain are not only pardoned, but also given money?" López asked, referring to the government's interest in the Court Accounts do not hold accountable leaders of the 'procés'.

Tribute to the victims

On the other hand, Casado explained why his party did not attend the act of institutional tribute to the victims in Congress, but rather demonstrated at the doors of the Lower House.

"The PP is a victim of ETA. I need to maintain the legacy and bring the voice of the victims. That is why the PP is not going to participate in any act with Bildu, a party that has not condemned more than 800 murders and also receives as heroes" to the ETA members when they get out of jail.

"We asked the PSOE what it was doing" organizing an act with Bildu and "what it is doing to ban etorris NGOs", the leader of the main opposition party has influenced.

"The Bildu spokesperson who attended this event was the editor of a publication in which we were singled out and then we were killed," he said about Mertxe Aizpurua.

And he has accused the PSOE of "bringing in the leadership of the State parties heirs of ETA that want to destroy it"

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