The Spanish judiciary moves against the amnesty of the agreement between PSOE and Junts for the new government

The General Council of the Spanish Judiciary (CGPJ), whose mandate expired almost five years ago, sent to the European institutions its declaration against the amnesty for the defendants in the Catalan independence trial and the pact signed between PSOE and ERC .

The CGPJ sent both texts to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; to the vice-president of the community government, Vera Jourova; to the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders; the President of the European Council, Charles Michel; and the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, as well as the president of the European Network of Councils for Justice.

The texts sent are accompanied by a letter in which the CGPJ warns of "serious episodes of attack on the rule of law, the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary being experienced in Spain" around the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.

The letter states that the Sánchez government has agreed with a criminal fugitive to grant him impunity for various crimes, including corruption. Furthermore, the pact provides for the possibility that political parties in Parliament conduct investigations against judges, violating the framework for protecting the independence of the judiciary established by law.

The person responsible for sending the texts and author of the letter is the deputy José María Macías, proposed by the PP to be part of the body and one of the most active against the Sánchez government.

The letter adds that, according to the CGPJ, these pacts, both by their purpose and their content, represent the abolition of the rule of law in Spain and an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the division of powers.

The decision to file a complaint with Europe comes after judges, prosecutors and the CGPJ itself expressed controversy yesterday against the reference to legality introduced in the agreement signed by the PSOE and Junts.

The four most representative associations of judges, including the Progressive Judges and Judges for Democracy, sent a joint statement in which they express their rejection of this reference and of the "consequences" that the inclusion of the concept of lawfare in the agreement, a term used to define judicial persecution for political reasons.

The three prosecutors' associations also separately distributed notes opposing the inclusion of this term in the agreement, while the acting president of the CGPJ urgently met with his permanent commission to rule on the text.

Socialist sources clarify that the agreement does not provide for the creation of commissions of inquiry in the Congress to ascertain cases of loyalty, but only the establishment of the commissions already agreed with the independentists in the negotiations of the Congress table.

Reactions from judicial workers continued to spread this Friday. Around 80 senior judges from all over Spain, including those from Barcelona, ​​​​Lleida, Girona, Madrid or the National Court, joined the rejection expressed by all judicial associations to the part of the agreement between PSOE and Junts which provides for the possibility of investigating whether there has been judicial persecution against pro-independence leaders.

The judges wrote that they also “show their rejection of references to the legalization or judicialization of politics and its consequences.”

Other organizations, such as the Madrid Bar Association, have also issued similar notes.

In summary, the CGPJ sent to Europe its complaint against the amnesty for the defendants of the Catalan independence trial and the pact signed between PSOE and ERC.

The complaint states that these agreements represent an attack on the rule of law, the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

The complaint was prepared with the support of all Spanish judicial associations, which expressed their rejection of the references to amnesty and judicial persecution. After all, Spanish justice has applied laws created to protect the state. Who could have ever predicted that a Spanish government would reach an agreement with those who want to erase Spain?