Angela Martialay Madrid

Madrid

Updated Thursday, January 25, 2024-10:38

  • Justice Members of the Fiscal Council attack García Ortiz for hiding the Senate's request for amnesty

  • Courts The Senate urges García Ortiz so that the Prosecutor's Office does not delay its report on the amnesty any longer

The Attorney General of the State

Álvaro García Ortiz

rejects that the Fiscal Council has to report on the amnesty, as the Senate has requested on two occasions.

In an interview on

TVE,

the attorney general - whom the Supreme Court accused of "diversion of power" - has indicated that this Thursday he will respond to the president of the Senate

Pedro Rollán

informing him that the Fiscal Council lacks the competence to report on the proposed law designed to erase crimes from the

process.

Álvaro García Ortiz adopts this decision without consulting the majority of the members of the Council, a collegiate body that he presides over.

After

EL MUNDO

revealed that the president of the Senate sent a letter to the attorney general on Tuesday, in which he stated that he has had on his desk since December 7 the request from the Upper House Board for the Fiscal Council to report on the proposal for an Amnesty Law and had not yet received a response, the members of the

Association of Prosecutors

showed their "deep astonishment and rejection that a request of this nature and relevance, coming from a constitutional body, has not only not been attended to, but which has been hidden from the knowledge of the Fiscal Council for weeks".

From the AF they sent a letter yesterday to the attorney general where they stressed that "by virtue of the principle of collaboration between the constitutional bodies, the inattention of the State Attorney General to the request received, made clear in the letter from the President of the Senate of 23, is not acceptable. from January".

The members asked García Ortiz to "immediately process the request for a report received, requiring an extension for its evacuation, and to proceed in accordance with the processing protocol set forth in the agreement of the State Attorney General of 30 April 2019 regarding the appointment of speakers, preparation and approval of the report by the Plenary of the Fiscal Council".

The member of the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors

, Salvador Viada

, also asked for explanations of what happened

.

Behind the Fiscal Council

However, García Ortiz will refuse to report on the amnesty and will communicate it to the president of the Upper House without submitting the relevance of whether or not to issue an opinion on the proposed law to debate by the Fiscal Council.

Rollán explained to the attorney general that "since this is a legislative initiative with great impact on Spanish society and also in the legal and institutional spheres, it is vitally important that a report be issued by authorities as high as the one he presides over, so that illustrious and favor the debate in the Cortes Generales".

Together with the Fiscal Council, the Senate has informed the

General Council of the Judiciary

to also rule on the amnesty for the protagonists of the

process.

In the case of the governing body of judges, speakers have already been appointed who are currently working on the report that is expected to be debated in plenary after the Galician elections on February 18.