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"I want to offer a way out."

The president of the PP has appeared at the national headquarters of the PP to assess the institutional crisis that Spain is experiencing these days and to demand from Pedro Sánchez that the socialists and populares "agree" on a reform of the Judiciary and "sit down" again to agree on a reform of the Criminal Code that goes through all the controls of independent organizations and that does not reduce the penalties for embezzlement and does not "repeal" sedition.


But, yes, he has ensured that renewing the Judiciary with the PP is "absolutely incompatible with the politicization of the Penal Code."

In other words, either Sánchez renounces his penal reform, or Feijóo will not sit down with him to unblock the CGPJ and the Constitutional Court.

In this sense, Feijóo has demanded new requirements to unlock the CGPJ, such as the criminalization of the illegal referendum, which was not in the agreement reached by Esteba González Pons and Félix Bolaños in October.


"I offer him to do it by fulfilling what he offered to the citizens as a candidate: classify a referendum as a crime and maintain the penalties for embezzlement. And that he reform the law not to appoint high positions of his as magistrates of the TC, but so that the judges elect judges, as our democracy should be".

In an appearance before the press in which he was accompanied by the Genoa senior staff, the leader of the main opposition party proposed "that the major State decisions be agreed between the party that is in government and the one that will be in the next legislature", and do not submit "to the whim of those who want to leave the country", in reference to the Catalan independence parties.

"As long as he is president of this party, Sánchez will have an ally" to agree on big issues.

"Because I am not willing for Sánchez's troubles to be for all Spaniards," he said.

The PP reaches out to negotiate with the Executive... but only if it accepts the demands of the popular.

"There is a double proposal. If what we want is to make an organic law of the Judiciary and deepen judicial independence, that is absolutely incompatible with the politicization of the Penal Code and with repealing Supreme Court rulings against embezzlement and sedition," he said. said, to questions from journalists.

"We cannot say that we are in favor of depoliticization and politicizing in another law; State parties do not do this, State parties make State agreements, but they cannot be one thing and its opposite," he explained.

In this situation, the PP "no longer" needs to denounce the Executive before Europe, because the Constitutional Court has already "ordered to stop."

Of course, Feijóo has announced that if he governs, he will propose a draft organic law of the Judiciary so that "the judges elect the majority of the judges" members of the CGPJ.

As this is not going to happen with Sánchez in La Moncloa, Feijóo demands ballot boxes.

"If this is not the case, and since serious decisions are being made, the other way out is to hold elections."

"Denying this possibility would be proof that they want to continue on the path of the independentistas," he insisted.


Because, in Feijóo's opinion, Sánchez will do "everything possible" to please the independentistas and "control Justice from the Government."

"I will do the opposite: defend it permanently and guarantee judicial independence."

It is, in his opinion, "what the majority of Spaniards want."

Feijóo has celebrated that the Constitutional Court (TC) accepted last night, in a very precautionary way, to paralyze the parliamentary processing of the amendments presented by PSOE and United We Can to change the organic laws of the General Council of the Judiciary and the guarantee court itself.

The decision of the TC has been, in his opinion, a "defense" of the rights of parliamentarians.

"What has happened is that there has been a pronouncement by the Constitutional Court that referred exclusively to the form," and it has not prevented these reforms of organic laws from being voted on in the Chambers.

"The TC has not stolen the debate, on the contrary: it has come to guarantee it," she pointed out.

"What the court has said is that this vote be done in accordance with the Constitution, period," because "she was a cacicada."

"It is a mere formal question, nothing more," she emphasized.

"You can't go above the law"


In one of the harshest criticisms of the Executive, Feijóo has said: "No matter how Pedro Sánchez may be, you cannot go over the laws", but rather "we have a Constitution that protects us even from our own Government, given that the TC is the only one that can repeal a law in its entirety regardless of its rank".

Of course, in other passages of his speech the leader of the main opposition party wanted to be solemn.

"At certain times it is up to us to position ourselves and this is one of them, given the seriousness of the statements made by the highest institutional representatives of the State," he said, before accusing the Executive of going against the opposition and against the press.

"The most relevant thing," he added, is that "it is news that they are going to abide by the sentence", as if that could be in doubt.

And that seems to him an expression of "populism" that connects with the Catalan independence movement: "Not only do you give in to them in everything, but your style is copied"

And he has charged harshly against the socialists who control the Congress, the Senate and the Executive.

"Enough of talking about plots and coups, enough of intrigues against the State and talking about façades in toga. Enough of saying that whoever is not with Sánchez's theses is a conspirator or a fascist. And enough of challenging the system that has brought our country the greatest 40 years of prosperity.

"We are in an unusual and unprecedented verbal escalation and I want to ask that the verbal escalation be lowered" with accusations such as "coup" and "plot" between the judges and the PP, he has denounced.

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