This Friday, Sumar filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against the interim president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Vicente Guilarte, and the conservative members of the organization for their “unacceptable interference” in the legislative function of Congress, by authorizing and participating in the extraordinary plenary session that led to the institutional declaration against the Amnesty Law. This is a judicial action promoted by one of the two parties that support the coalition Executive at the head of La Moncloa.
Specifically, the complaint from the parliamentary group led by the second vice president, Yolanda Diazaccuses these members of the governing body of judges of incurring an alleged crime of administrative prevarication, which entails disqualification from holding public office, for promoting an “illegal”, “arbitrary” resolution that exceeds the powers of the CGPJ.
In the socialist wing of the Executive they have distanced themselves from the initiative of their partners. The Minister of Justice, Felix Bolañoshas advocated for “dialogue” to “build bridges of understanding” with the CGPJ “with the objective that Justice recovers what it should never have lost, which is institutional normality”, in reference to the expired mandate.
After learning of the complaint filed by Sumar, the PP has censured the European Union’s “hunt” by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez for the Judiciary. His spokesperson in Brussels, Sorrows Montserrathas also attacked the “diversion of power” of the State Attorney General in the promotion of the former Minister of Justice Dolores Delgado and has asked the Commission to “protect the independence of judges and prosecutors in Spain.”
“We believe that no one is above the law, not even the members of the General Council of the Judiciary,” the deputy argued, in turn. Enrique Santiago, member of the parliamentary group promoting this complaint. “We believe that this politicization of Justice cannot be allowed,” she added in statements to the media outside the Supreme Court.