The PP has transferred its confrontation with the Government of Pedro Sánchez to the courts. Through the twelve autonomous communities in which it governs, the party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has presented resources in the Constitutional Court against some key policies of the Central Executive such as the Amnesty Law, Housing, Housing or Tax on Great Fortunas.
To this offensive, the popular have recently added a new conflict over the distribution of foreign minors. Madrid, Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla y León, Cantabria, Baleares, Murcia and the Valencian Community have already announced unconstitutionality resources. In line with the speech of their territorial barons, Feijóo asked the central government to assume “their responsibilities” and take over the management of these minors “with their own resources and in their facilities, and not transferring responsibility for the autonomous communities”, which are already saturated, according to the autonomic presidents who oppose the distribution of young people who arrive in the Canary Islands.
The Aragonese Jorge Azcón, who would need Vox’s support to approve new budgets, was one of the first barons that rejected the new law decree. He stood at the head of a “frontal opposition” to the “inequality that is promoted from the Government of Spain and the xenophobic policies that have agreed to Junts and the Socialist Party,” he said. This opposition of the PP has also joined the socialist Emiliano García Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, who has already advanced that his government is studying to resort to this measure.
In Genoa they have collected less support in their opposition to the removal of the autonomous debt of more than 82,000 million announced by the Government. Only Madrid and Castilla y León have threatened to take this issue to the courts when the measure is approved in Congress, while other communities of the same political sign try not to confirm if they will maintain their refusal to adhere to this mechanism.
Resources against the amnesty law
The popular also deployed their judicial offensive against the amnesty law. On this occasion, in addition to the party itself, six autonomous communities governed by the PP, the Parliament of Cantabria and, again, Castilla-La Mancha, joined the initiative. Page defended that the norm “is an unconstitutional law because it breaks the principle of equality among citizens.”
Carlos Mazón, president of the Generalitat Valenciana, went further and described the law as “a norm written to the dictation of criminals, a legislative aberration that breaks the guarantee of legal certainty and the protection of the rights of all Spaniards.” His government also requested the challenge of progressive magistrates Cándido Conde-Pumpido, Juan Carlos Campo and Laura Díez “for their notorious and blushing link with the Socialist Party.” In this way, the Mazón executive – as did the party itself and other autonomous communities of the PP – alluded to the fact that they were appointed magistrates at the proposal of the PSOE and that Campo was part of the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Finally, the former minister will not participate in the plenary debate about amnesty.
In her crusade against Moncloa, Isabel Díaz Ayuso blamed the president of being “responsible” for a process that, according to her, was going to lead to a “referendum” and “the breakdown of coexistence.” In relation to this judicial conflict, the Community of Madrid resorted to the exclusion of José María Macías – a magistrate of the Constitutional who opposed the Amnesty Law – of the deliberations of the high court on this rule. The regional government argued that the challenge of this magistrate is “an irregular and arbitrary decision, which does not respect any procedure and violates the right to effective judicial protection, departing from the previous criteria of this same Constitutional Court.”
From the Ayuso government, the President of the Constitutional, Judge Cándido Gómez Pumpido, which last week the regional spokesman of the Executive accused of being the “Minister 23” of Sánchez, has chosen against the president of the Constitutional. He did it when referring to another of the open disputes between the two administrations, the refusal of the Madrid president to be remembered with a plaque the Francoist past of the headquarters of the regional presidency, the Royal Casa de Correos, located in the Puerta del Sol. Again, the confrontation has climbed, and the two parties have taken it to the Constitutional.
The endorsement to the Housing Law
Judicial pulses do not end with amnesty. The Housing Law has opened a crack between La Moncloa and several communities governed by the PP, not only for the refusal of these regions to apply it, also because some, such as Andalusia, Madrid, Balearic Islands and Galicia, have taken part of their articulated to the Constitutional. The PP deputies in Congress made the same decision. To them other administrations were added, such as the Euskadi government and the Catalan parliament.
In addition to an invasion of competencies, communities such as Galicia suggest the fear of the squatting, ensuring that the norm of the central government that aims to limit the rents favors the usurpation of real estate and insecurity. It causes, as they warned, “the withdrawal of homes from the rental market opting for the sale or tourist use,” said the Minister of the Branch, Ángeles Vazquez.
However, the Constitutional Court has given little margin to these criticisms. In 2024, the Plenary rejected almost all the arguments of the appeal of the Junta de Andalucía. A similar positioning adopted when analyzing the allegations of the deputies of the PP, the progressive majority of the Court of Guarantees endorsed the limits of rental increases in tension areas, a measure very criticized by popular barons. “It is not obliged, in any case, to set an antieconomic price,” concluded the magistrates, despite the catastrophic statements about this measure. In this way, they disassembled the ayuso thesis that came to ensure that the rental price “is an attack on property.”
In parallel, the governments of the PP joined forces last year to take Sánchez to the Supreme Court to convene the presidents conference. Nine communities mobilized in court to require the president of the Government to schedule this meeting “immediate and urgent.” The meeting ended up last December, in Santander.
This judicial front has collided several times with the decisions of the courts. Madrid, Andalusia and Galicia have received judicial varapalos, as happened with the Tax to the Great Fortunas. The Constitutional rejected the offensive of these communities against this tax that only affects people with a net worth of three million euros. In spite of these setbacks, the PP pulse continues with the resources presented against the distribution of migrant minors and those announced by Madrid and Castilla y León against the damage of debt.
Source: www.eldiario.es
