The PP sends a letter to Bolaños to sit down to negotiate and “depoliticize” the CGPJ

In the letter, which Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party has transferred to the media, the popular ones maintain their requirements and demand that the search for profiles that guarantee the depoliticization of the body that governs the judges be prioritized in the negotiation. “It is anachronistic that at this point in our Democracy, the election of the representatives of the judges continues to depend on the arbitrary decision of political positions,” reads the letter. In the four-page letter, up to 11 points are broken down in the that both parties should reach agreements. Among other things, it proposes promoting a bill by urgent means to reform Justice. After Lesmes’s notice, the PP takes this step after the president of the CGPJ, Carlos Lesmes, threatened to resign if this body, with the mandate expired a long time ago, almost four years, it is not renewed or its powers are not returned to it. The PP does not want the renewal of the CGPJ “to be a mere distribution of quotas” and that is why they postulate that the negotiation be carried out in the Cortes Generales. They also agree not to propose “in the turn of jurists to judges who were not supported by their colleagues.” At the same time, they demand that all the high positions of the judicial career be elected “by a three-fifths majority.” They also demand that people who have held a political position in the last five years cannot apply for the State Attorney General’s Office. The text criticizes the Executive and maintains that the majority that arises in the Constitutional Court is “abusive”. They affirm that “to win a TC for a Government is to lose it for the citizens”. They consider that “the polls grant a reasonable majority to the Government”, but “never as abusive as the one that arises at the moment”.