The internal pressure in the PP broke the covenant court

The inopportune messages with the political interference on the Justice forwarded from the mobile Ignacio Cosidó, the spokesman of the PP in the Senate, were a wishbone. And for many in the PP the perfect justification for breaking the covenant of the judiciary, the only major agreement reached in this legislature between the socialist Government and the new PP Paul Married. The PP has formally liberated of the covenant by the “disloyalty” of the Executive of Sanchez to the filter on the name of Manuel Marchena, the conservative candidate for president of the General Council of the Judiciary. Popular sources involved in the negotiation denied that version and conclude that the trigger was the internal pressure of the tougher line in the game and in their support of the media.

The intrahistory of how he forged first the covenant, and how it shattered begins with the only meeting that have kept Pedro Sanchez and Married in The Moncloa last August 2. The two leaders agreed that it was appropriate to renew in time and form the highest body of the judiciary and that they should put in the work to someone you trust. And so it was.

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The next day, Sanchez has entrusted that task to his minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado, and Married to Rafael Catalá, the former minister of that area in the last team of Mariano Rajoy. The two became a first call in the summer, and postponed his first appointment in the Ministry, for the first few days of September. Since then, these meetings were almost weekly, with discretion, and without excessive problems, including the creation of a climate of confidence between the two, as confirmed in the environment of the two teams.

The first task we got was to confirm the truth that they wanted to reach a bilateral agreement, not to include in the negotiations, nor Can we or Citizens, and the second thing they did was to begin expunging the list of more than fifty candidates were presented to fill the 20 coveted positions of members of the Judiciary. So they came up to mid-October, with the commitment not to get bans. And it was then Catalá which demanded Thin already speak of an aspiring president and he put on the table the name of Marchena. It was not a proposal casual nor innocent.

It had already been proposed for that position in December 2013 by the then popular minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón to his partner, Antonio Camacho, with whom he negotiated with the same Sultanbet system the previous renewal of the Council by delegation, the respective Rajoy and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. Marchena was already in the Supreme Court and fell down, then from the list in the final straight as now. Its theoretical querencia conservative, seemed to them a lesser evil in front of their proven independence and professional level demonstrated in the processing of pro-independence leaders in Catalonia.

Delgado did not cause of that name but of recovering a majority progressive on the Council. Catalá convinced by his party to Married his friend Marchena was superb and all of the cast (11 vocal progressive and 9 conservatives, plus the president) was the best and only possible one. Thin and Catalá agreed that the renewal would facilitate to turn a string of more than 30 appointments at other court levels. At the end of October the matter was almost resolved to the expected to make it public. Sanchez and Married they received information permanent. This led to the second weekend in a decisive November. The newspaper Abc published that Friday 9 a information with all the aspirants conservatives proposed by the PP, without mentioning the president. THE COUNTRY moved forward that afternoon on its website the candidacy of Marchena, according to confirmed sources involved in the negotiation and beyond the control of the PSOE and the Government. This news upset in the PP and in The Moncloa. Some media put the lie to. This weekend we returned to find a Thin and Catalá: the covenant went ahead in spite of those drawbacks.

On the night of Sunday, November 11, the minister cited for the 8: 30 a.m. that Monday at his office in Marchena to confirm in 15 minutes that he was their candidate for president. That Monday, after seeing Delgado and advance to the director of a medium their plans for the future Council, It was found how, from The Moncloa confirmed his appointment, that a little later also ratified sources of the PP. Do not put paste.

“Huge upset”

The problem with Marchena is desbocó by the angry reaction of the most hard of the PP and conservative means, not with the president but with the candidate to vocal progressive José Ricardo de Prada, one of the judges of the National court that participated in the drafting of the caso Gürtel, according to confess now popular leaders involved in the negotiation and direction. In an internal meeting of the parliamentary group of one of the members of his address, came to reproach him Married and his environment that “excessive flexibility” and that they could not understand “the huge upset of the party base ready to explode,” for having accepted to Prada.

That reaction and harsh criticism in newspapers and radios related to the PP are multiplied in the following days to the point that the leadership of the party opted then for allowing Carlos Rojas, spokesman for parliament in the appointments, questioning the face the lack of independence of Prada and espetara that could be better in the Advice that signing statements. Yes, the PP is swallowed the toad votarle to please. It was a reaction agreed to calm tempers internal very soliviantados. But it was not enough.

Then it came, the Monday, 19, the publication in Spanish of the whatsapp of Cosidó. Tuesday 20, Marchena quit. And, then, suspended the vote in the Congress of the vowels. The PP has opened a witch hunt to find out who wrote that message that allowed Married awall of a covenant to which you do not see sufficient benefits.