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Updated Monday, February 5, 2024-00:04

The democratic quality of the institutions that support the Rule of Law never depends only on their nature, always fragile, but, above all, on the sense, responsibility and moral conscience of the specific citizens who embody them. That is why

when political power begins an operation to undermine its independence of judgment,

it chooses for certain positions the most appropriate profiles to corrupt the will of its subordinates. Without them, it wouldn't be possible.

The prosecutor

of the Supreme Court to which the presentation on the

Tsunami case

, Álvaro Redondo,

has prepared two different opinions in a few days.

The first was in which he supported the classification of terrorism for the events in which Judge Manuel García-Castellón implicated Carles Puigdemont, and which would therefore have been critical for the interests of the Government. And unexpectedly another, later,

in which it is aligned with the theses of the Executive

and rules out that the assault on the El Prat airport or the riots in Plaza Urquinaona have that character. Between one and the other there was a meeting between Redondo and the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, in the latter's office, precisely the person who can most influence his professional career.

The position of the Prosecutor's Office in this phase of the procedure will be decided this Tuesday by the Board of Prosecutors of the Supreme Court and it will be its Admission Chamber, subsequently, who will decide whether to initiate an investigation for terrorism with Puigdemont as the accused. But it is evident that

The Government is using the natural discrepancies that arise during the investigation of a process to feed a state of opinion aimed at attributing

lawfare

to anyone who dares to act autonomously

and depart from your interests. Pedro Sánchez's intervention on Thursday in Brussels is eloquent proof: "As everyone knows, independence is not terrorism." The idea is, therefore, to spread the idea that Puigdemont is being investigated for being an independentist and not for participating in allegedly terrorist acts.

The resilience of certain public servants in the face of the attempt at democratic delegitimization represented by the amnesty has led the founding law of the legislature to an apparent dead end:

Puigdemont demands to include terrorism and high treason but that would not pass the European Union filter

, where an increasingly critical state of opinion prevails. So the Executive will do everything in its power to make these crimes disappear from the ongoing procedures. The servants placed in the appropriate position will come to his aid. It is up to the attorney general, whose history of misuse of power is known, to provide explanations. And to prosecutor Redondo, decide according to his moral conscience.

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