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The renewal of the members of the General Council of the Judiciary will continue to be blocked, with no hint that the PSOE and PP can reach an agreement. Neither the public call of

Carlos Lesmes

to do it now, "in the coming weeks," nor the

popular

proposal to

initiate negotiations and, in parallel, agree to a change in the designation system of the CGPJ to give more power to their own judges in the election, have managed to open no way.

The Government refuses to include this legal modification in a possible pact, despite the fact that yesterday, the statements of some ministers seemed to suggest that it was being considered. Nothing is further from reality. In fact, the Executive believes that this proposal is a new "excuse" for Pablo Casado. "It is an unsustainable blockade," said the spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, and "there are no more excuses."


Moncloa

maintains that the PP raises this change as an "imposition" and that compliance with the

Constitution

to renew the General Council of the Judiciary with the current law is not negotiated.

At this time, nothing indicates that the PSOE and PP can resume contacts and agree on the new members of the CGPJ, whose mandate has expired for almost three years.

Although Casado has announced this morning that he will ask for an "immediate meeting" with Pedro Sánchez to negotiate, the Government will not give a quick process to this request or call the opposition leader directly.

"Nobody has to call any Spaniard to comply with the Constitution, we are all obliged, Mr. Casado too," the spokeswoman assured.

The Government Parapet

This is the position to which the Executive has anchored itself today - there is no other way than renewal - without entering into more disquisitions and ignoring at all times the reproaches that Lesmes directed in his speech to the Government itself, both for the pardons to the prisoners of the

procés

as by the attempts to lower the majorities for the appointment of the members of the CGPJ (a reform that has been put on hold due to criticism from

Brussels

) and the change, which has been made, to prevent this body from making appointments, once their mandate has ended.

The Government has hidden itself in respect to the separation of powers so as not to respond to Lesmes.

This represents a change with respect to the stage of Iván Redondo, when the confrontation with the president of the Supreme Court and the CGPJ was much more visible.

Without news about an agreement with the PP, the Executive will turn in the coming days in the celebration of the dialogue table with the Generalitat. Isabel Rodríguez has indicated that "the agenda and the components of the delegation are being finalized." Moncloa's will is that the appointment be next week, as agreed, but for now there is nothing closed. A fact that government sources attribute to the differences between ERC and Junts, that they do not agree on the focus of this meeting. Once the date is set, they explain, the contents will be closed and, depending on them, the members. In the Government they are not in favor of the President of the Government attending, although the

President will

of the Generalitat.

Pera Aragonès, because the regulation of the dialogue table establishes that the chairmen will participate only when agreements have to be signed.

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