Feijóo already places the PSOE outside the Constitution: "In 2017 in Parliament, it was with the Magna Carta and yesterday it abandoned it"

• Politics The Government pressures the PP to withdraw the appeal in the TC

• Justice Progressive magistrates threatened to leave the plenary session of the Constitutional Court if they voted to stop the government's plan

Far from being intimidated, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has responded this Friday to pressure from the Government to withdraw the amparo appeal before the

that requested the suspension of the processing in Congress of the express reform of the Penal Code.

The leader of the PP has not only reaffirmed his strategy, but has already placed the

outside the Constitution.

"Today the independence movement governs Spain", he has sentenced during his visit to Valencia and in what is his first assessment after the convulsive day of Thursday in

, in the midst of an institutional crisis.

For Feijóo, Thursday was "a black day for democracy", since the

and its parliamentary partners carried out -and urgently- the reform of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court to change the formula for electing their members, together with the repeal of the crime of sedition and the reduction of the penalties for embezzlement agreed with

.

"The votes where the independence of

and the disconnection laws were declared were less serious than those of yesterday," the president of the

has insisted .

"In 2017, the PSOE in the Catalan Parliament was with the Constitution and yesterday it abandoned the Constitution."

Hours before, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, directly equated the

and the judges with coup plotters for blocking the renewal of the Judiciary in an "attempt to run over democracy."

Feijóo's reading is, however, exactly the opposite, since he has lashed out at Sánchez warning that "not everything goes to stay in power."

The day of the vote in Congress that he tried to avoid with the appeal before the Constitutional Court "will be remembered because for the first time the independence movement wins and constitutionalism loses."

With very harsh words, Feijóo has indicated that the suppression of the crime of sedition and the reduction of penalties for embezzlement that will benefit the pro-independence leaders of the

, will mean something "unprecedented" in Spain.

If on the one hand "referendums are facilitated", on the other the way is paved for "public money to be used for declarations of independence".

"And for the first time using the Penal Code, control by the Government of the Constitutional Court is attempted."

"Not everything is valid to stay in power. Not everything is legitimate when you know that you are legislating illegally against the Constitutional Court," added Feijóo, who has described as "dangerous language" to approve - as they have done according to him the PSOE and its partners - to the magistrates of the TC with "the coup civil guards of

".

"This leads us to continue defending the Constitution and the Rule of Law", affirmed the

leader , who has guaranteed the "respect" of the main opposition party "for the Constitutional Court decide what it decides and for judicial independence whatever they decide judges decide."

"If the Government is clear that it is no longer doing it, the PP will do it and calmly," Feijóo said, lamenting that "today the minorities have defeated the majorities sponsored by the Government of Spain."

Faced with this scenario of maximum institutional tension that opens from now on, Feijóo has once again called for the early calling of elections: "When the minority prevails over the majority, the majority has the right to defend themselves by voting at the polls."

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