In the course of a week, the disaster that Isabel Díaz Ayuso warned about regarding the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is no longer a disaster, according to the government of the Community of Madrid. Although Ayuso himself remains silent after the agreement announced TuesdayGovernment spokesman and Justice Minister Miguel Ángel García said on Wednesday that the pact reached by PSOE and PP is a “good agreement” for which the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, should be congratulated.
Ayuso goes back and forth in his statements about the form of government in Spain. Sometimes the dictatorship is already an accomplished reality; others a more or less immediate threat. If democracy had “counted the hours” seven days ago, the chronometer now slows down, if García's words are heeded. “It is a positive agreement,” the spokesperson for the council reiterated after the government meeting, emphasizing that “depoliticization is progressing” and “the revolving doors are ending” between the government and the governing body of the judges.
The spokesman has tried to square his leader's discursive circle. When asked if “Sanchismo is Chavismo”, as Ayuso said a few days ago, García said that he had not added or removed “not even a comma” from her words, and has tried to show that Ayuso is now satisfied with the agreement. “The president asked for something that is being fulfilled: that at the same time as the extension [de los consejeros] “Election method reform will be addressed.”
“It is happening at the same time,” he emphasized regarding the argument recently used by the PP to block the renewal of the body. However, the text of the agreement is very vague in this sense, as it proposes that the directors themselves propose a reform of the election method, with a three-fifths majority. That proposal would later reach the Cortes. The Madrid government's confidence in the parliamentary process is in stark contrast to the usual mistrust it expresses, which has led the regional PP to refuse to reform the Statute of Autonomy and to remove words such as “disabled” from its articles , fearing that, with a bad idea, other changes were introduced into the debate in Congress.
In Catalonia the decibels remain high
The Madrid government is now facing criticism from the right. The spokesperson of Vox in the Madrid Assembly, Rocío Monasterio, made crosses on the social network ”. García is against the fact that the PP is engaged in the “depoliticization” of the CGPJ and “prevents the policy of colonization of the institutions from being maintained.”
The defense of institutional cooperation that the Madrid government is now celebrating has not yet translated into a decline in revolutions in terms of the adjectives dedicated to the regional government. The CGPJ is lagging behind, but the debate on the change in regional financing and the “unique” status that the nationalist parties are seeking for Catalonia continues to seem to the Ayuso government a case of “political corruption” and “vote buying” rather than legitimate negotiations, as the spokesman has reiterated.