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Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2024-00:06
Yesterday the Government suffered a
resounding defeat
in the vote on the founding law of the legislature, which is very affected. The humiliating price that Carles Puigdemont demands - amnesty of all terrorism and even high treason - in exchange for his support for the budgets and the development of government action turned out to be
unaffordable even for Pedro Sánchez
. The Amnesty Law is thus temporarily paralyzed, as proof of the ungovernability of a legislature born of corruption.
n immoral: the exchange of impunity for power.
In a session full of uncertainty, the PSOE finally refused to support the Junts amendments, so the bill could be renegotiated in the Congressional justice commission. That the Government now presents itself as the guarantor of the Constitution is a
exercise of capital cynicism
, after designing an a la carte amnesty and offering to distinguish terrorism
Well
. For this reason, it is impossible to trust that Sánchez will not end up compromising again.
It is not a sudden moral conversion that has moved the Government. In addition to the important social response to the amnesty, and the commendable resistance of a series of public servants, the European Commission is vigilant. And it starts from a key premise: that
Puigdemont's links with Vladimir Putin's Kremlin
-whose investigation has been extended by Judge Joaquín Aguirre- cannot be amnestied. The minister
Bolaños
meets today with the European Commissioner for Justice to address, together with González Pons, the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). How could I explain in Brussels that the Russian plot of the
processes
Shouldn't it even be investigated?
Yesterday's session portrayed, in any case, the shared interests of the "plurinational" bloc. From the rostrum, the government's minority party (Sumar) and its partners Junts, ERC, Bildu and Podemos
They accused the judges of "prevaricating"
and they pointed them out by name (Manuel Marchena, Manuel García-Castellón and the aforementioned Aguirre). Bolaños later distanced himself, but it is useless: the PSOE has already adopted the lawfare discourse as its own.
With that letter of introduction, that of a power alliance that insults the magistrates and demands a new judicial leadership at its service, is how Bolaños goes to Brussels. The PSOE no longer acts as an autonomous party with the vocation of structuring the nation, but as the
visible head of a coalition of parties that uses the undermining of judicial independence as a means
to achieve their goals. Added to this is the aggressive occupation of key State institutions, from the TC to the Prosecutor's Office, which it has been carrying out.
The
renewal of the CGPJ
It is important in itself, but also because these members will allocate 86 positions in the high courts, 25 of them in the Supreme Court: the one in charge of reviewing the Government's regulations. In this context of maximum distrust, EU mediation can be positive if it does not ignore reality:
It is up to the Executive to offer guarantees and to the PP to demand them.
Renewal cannot be limited to a list of names: the election system must be reformed. Judicial independence is at stake.
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