It is difficult to imagine greater humiliation than what Sanchez inflicted yesterday on the Prosecutor's Office. After the lackluster role he played in the debate - where he did not want to reject the pact with the independentists -, driven by the desire to impose harshness against the same separatism that led him to La Moncloa in the motion of censure, a whole acting president incurred the bravado of presuming to have the Public Ministry at his command, as if the prosecutors of this country were no more than the executing arm of Sanchez's political will. The effect of this institutional scandal cannot be relativized. And not only because of what such a bluff reveals about the notion of the State that Sanchez manages, but because of the counterproductive effects that such a statement can have, in the mouth of the President of the Government, when it comes to achieving the effective extradition of Carles Puigdemont.

It should be remembered that the Prosecutor's Office, as guarantor of the law, is the body that defends all Spaniards. The fact that the attorney general is appointed by the government on duty should not entail the consolidation of a path of political interference that destroys the principle of separation of powers. That is why, in a note issued in self-defense, the prosecutors of the Supreme Court who maintained the accusation of rebellion against the coup plotters - finally convicted of sedition - have claimed their "functional autonomy" and "the subjection to the constitutional principles of legality and impartiality" . Those same prosecutors, who courageously and brilliantly defended the thesis of aggression against the constitutional order of the independence leaders, had to suffer the pressures of their former partner Dolores Delgado, who has executed as a minister what she criticized as prosecutor, dismissing Edmundo Bal to impose the sedition thesis in the State Advocacy, more convenient to the appeasement strategy advocated by Moncloa until the insurrectionary wave set Barcelona on fire during the electoral period.

In the nth Sanchista turn with respect to Catalonia, now the PSOE candidate intends to become an inflexible gendarme of the Waterloo fugitive. But he himself, being head of the opposition, demanded that Rajoy negotiate with Puigdemont after the 1-O police charges, in an act of memorable disloyalty. And the worst is not the incongruity and imposture, but his words feed the victimist account of totalitarian oppression that propagates secessionism and delivers a powerful trick to the lawyers of the escape to further complicate the extradition of Puigdemont.

All on the day when the United Kingdom denied the euro order against Clara Ponsatí under the pretext of "disproportion." Llarena must submit a question for a preliminary ruling to the Luxembourg Court: the figure of the Euro-order is revealing itself to judge one of the most serious crimes committed in a Member State.

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