Bolaños starts this Tuesday a round of contacts to renew the CGPJ: the first meeting, with the PP

The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, plans to hold his first round of face-to-face meetings this week with the spokesmen of all parliamentary formations and, in that context, will try to seek a rapprochement with the PP to to ask Pablo Casado’s party again to negotiate the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), whose mandate expired almost three years ago.

This will be one of the fundamental issues that will mark this round of contacts, although the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2022 will also have a major role, which the Government plans to approve, at the latest, in early October, and for those it needs. re-enlist the support of its parliamentary partners. The Executive arrives at this negotiation after strengthening its relationship with ERC, with the restart of the dialogue table.

The forecast is that the meetings begin with the PP, since as usual they will go from highest to lowest representation, although sources from the department of Bolaños explain to Europa Press that they are still closing the minister’s agenda.

Despite these meetings, the PSOE had already offered the PP to negotiate the Constitutional Constitution outside the CGPJ, as explained by Héctor Gómez, spokesman for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, during his interview with EL ESPAÑOL. “We are going to have a dialogue. Do they say no to the CGPJ? Well, let’s start talking about the Constitutional Court, or the Ombudsman, or let’s talk about many issues …”, he says.

The Minister of the Presidency undertakes this round with the aim of “establish dialogue between different”, with all parties, and “ask them for responsibility and a sense of state” to “achieve useful agreements”, at a time when relations between the Government and the main opposition party are more tense than ever.

President Pedro Sánchez has not spoken with Casado for months, and he does not plan to call him soon to personally request an agreement for the CGPJ. As the level of tension rises in their mutual reproaches, The Chief Executive has delegated to Bolaños the negotiation to renew the Judicial Power, although both parties acknowledge that they are totally stagnant.

“Spain needs agreements and I will extend my hand so that we can achieve them,” said Bolaños in his first appearance in Congress on September 9 after assuming his position as Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory in July, and main political coordinator of the Executive, after the departure of Carmen Calvo.

In this way, this week will be his first round of meetings with the parties, although after taking office in July he already made a telephone round, before the summer break, to establish a first contact. That is when Bolaños invited them to meet in September, with the start of the new political course.

This round now comes at a key moment for the Executive’s plans, insofar as it needs to tie up the necessary support to carry out the new Budgets; accounts that he plans to present in a timely manner, and which he defends as the key to undertaking a “fair recovery” in Spain after the pandemic.

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