The Government reforms the CGPJ to its measure to print a progressive bias to the Constitutional Court

• Justice The EU toughens its demand on Spain to renew the CGPJ and "the judges are chosen by their peers"

• Politics Pons and Bolaños meet to negotiate the CGPJ but fail when the Government refuses to withdraw its reform to control the TC

• Courts The judges denounce that the parties neither renew the CGPJ nor give them the power to do so

The

has managed to promote, with the support of its nationalist and pro-independence allies and by a super-express method, the counter-reform of the reform that it carried out only a few months ago to prevent the General Council of the Judiciary, whose mandate expired more than three years, could make any type of appointment.

Now, the Executive needs the CGPJ to appoint two new magistrates of the Constitutional Court because in this way he will also be able to elect two others and change the conservative sign of the current court for a progressive one.

This reform of the reform has been described as "botched" even by formations that have supported it, and as "cacicada" and "modification tailored to the interest of the Government" by the opposition.

The two main parties, PP and PSOE, have engaged in a crossroads of reproaches for "kidnapping Justice", "violating the Constitution" and "undermining the rule of law".

The

, by 183 votes in favor against 153 against and eight abstentions, has admitted to urgent processing the socialist proposal that will be approved tomorrow in the Chamber without the possibility of introducing amendments and contravening the European jurisprudence that requires for this type of changes that those affected, in this case the CGPJ, can present reports and be heard.

The debate on the proposal has been carried out coinciding with the publication of the analysis of the European Commission on the quality of democracy and Justice in the different States of the Union.

In the case of

,

calls for the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, which has had an expired mandate for more than three years, but also demands that the method of electing its members be modified, which should be carried out by the judges themselves in order to foster their independence and avoid their politicization.

Until now, the PP has blocked the first part of the premise, and the Government, the second.

Citizens have accused the PSOE of "cheating" to modify through a bill, that is, stealing from the constitutional bodies and the Council of the Judiciary itself, the possibility of issuing reports on a reform that intends to only partially change the powers of the body of Government of the judges so that they can, at the convenience of the Executive, appoint only two magistrates of the Constitutional Court but not the dozens of judges of superior courts and chambers pending substitution.

"Those do not matter to them," snapped the liberal spokesman Edmundo Bal, who has reproached the two major parties for the "pasteleo" and the "distribution of armchairs" that they carry out with the Justice.

The

and United We Can, for their part, have attacked the

for the "boycott" that they have imposed on the renewal of the Council for 1,300 days and have accused the new leader of the PP,

, of "constitutional disobedience" and "delegitimation of democracy".

The socialist spokesman,

, has insisted that his party has "sinned in kindness" and the PP "has taken advantage of it."

The representative of the

,

, has replied assuring him that the last thing the Government wants is to have an independent Justice and has brought to light the control that

decided to exercise over the Prosecutor's Office by appointing his former Minister of Justice,

, state attorney general.

"This government believes it has a license to break the constitutional precepts at its convenience," he stated before proposing to the PSOE the withdrawal of its counter-reform and sitting down to negotiate the State pact on Justice proposed by his party.

The

offer has been rejected.

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