The adhesion to the President of the Government these days from his partners, but particularly from the Socialists themselves – especially, the statement of support from their main mayors on the eve of the closing of ranks in Ferraz – have fueled the thesis about the existence of ‘lawfare’. ‘increasing concern in the judicial community. Concern that has turned into alarm after listening this Monday to the reasons given by Sánchez for remaining in Moncloa. The head of the Executive has seen his continuity as a crusade to “clean up democracy” that consulted sources from the General Council of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court, the National Court or the Madrid courts of Plaza de Castilla – where the proceedings have been opened to Sánchez’s wife – they interpret as a signal to the Judiciary.
«It is the biggest mistake he could have made. The judges are going to close ranks, because they represent, together with the press, a containment dam against other powers of the State that cannot be surpassed,” predicts a voice attached to the progressive sector of the CGPJ. This source doubts, however, that the Government can take a step of the importance of dusting off the controversial legal reform to lower the qualified majority required to renew the CGPJ; an initiative that the PSOE- Podemos Government tested in 2020 – with the brakes on Europe – in order to break the paralysis that has now lasted more than five years, for which the socialists blame the PP and which has become entrenched again after the failed mediation of former EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders. But in the conservative wing of the Council, the majority, they do deduce that this is what the president’s complaints against “the mud machine” point to.
“He hasn’t reflected at all”
«The outcome of the five days of reflection shows that Sánchez has not reflected at all, that it was only a matter of using the proceedings against his wife and an alleged social outcry that is not such to prepare the assault on the Judiciary, which goes beyond the CGPJ”, interprets one of the members of the preeminent sector in the governing body of judges. The PSOE demands from the PP that the update of the Council be without conditions in compliance with the constitutional mandate, while the popular ones agree to agree to it but only if it is linked to a change in the model of election of members in line with the European requirements for that judges are appointed by their peers.
This renewal, beyond the fact that it responds to a requirement of the Magna Carta, is far from being trivial at all. Five years from now, the sources consulted quantify the coverage of two-thirds of the 79 judges of the Supreme Court, the leadership of the Spanish judicial system. Its Criminal Chamber must execute the amnesty law, when it comes into force, with regard to the leaders of the ‘procés’ whom the court convicted and the still fugitive Carles Puigdemont, who also has a criminal case filed. of alleged terrorism linked to the Tsunami Democràtic protests. This Monday the concern was palpable in the Supreme Court, in the Madrid courts – which are also prosecuting Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend for fraud and in the National Court, one of whose magistrates, Ismael Moreno, has once again refused to summon Begoña Gómez for the ‘Koldo case’ of corruption due to insufficient evidence.
The unrest spread, furthermore, due to the “biased” and “malicious” questions asked by the CIS ‘flash’ survey, in which the interviewees are questioned about whether the proceedings surrounding the president’s wife are a form of ” “messing” with him, and for a demonstration this Monday afternoon against ‘The coup with a toga’ in front of the CGPJ headquarters in the same location that it shares with the Supreme Court. A rally, with slogans also of “coup plotters” against the informants who covered it, called like the one the day before before Congress by La Plaza, a group related to Sumar. The initiative, called “escrache” by a judicial source, brought together barely a hundred people.
