• Report: The State Advocacy asks that Junqueras be allowed to leave prison and go to the European Chamber to collect the MEP Act
  • Communiqué: State lawyers reject "pressure" attempts to distort their report on Junqueras

The deep malaise caused by the projected image by the Government of Pedro Sánchez of the State Advocacy has already caused the first internal crisis in the only association that brings together professionals from that group, the State Bar Association , which presides in the Fernando Bertrán.

The reasons for the discord are the image of "instrumentalization" of the institution following the report on the immunity of the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras; the possible "leakage" of these allegations to the independence formation before it was referred to the Supreme Court; as well as the ambiguous communiqué that said collective said yesterday rejecting "any attempt of interference or pressure and especially threat" to "distort" the report that the Advocacy presented this Monday on the scope of the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) regarding the convicted of sedition and embezzlement.

Although a priori it might seem that the State's lawyers were denouncing the pressures of the Executive, sources of the Advocacy consulted by THE WORLD maintain that the aforementioned statement, with few precedents for its forcefulness, was made at the express request of attorney General Consuelo Castro and as Rosa María Seoane's shield .

The different sources consulted argue that Castro wanted with this public note to counter Vox, which days ago announced a complaint against the State Advocate when considering that they were bordering the Law to benefit Junqueras. The general lawyer wanted to avoid that the chief lawyer of the Criminal Section, Rosa María Seoane, responsible for the cause of the process after the dismissal of Edmundo Bal , refused to sign the Junqueras report for fear that they would take legal action against her.

With this scenario, the resignations on the Board of Directors of the State Bar Association have not taken long to occur. Two of its members, the State lawyers, Estrella Pardo and María del Carmen Tejera - who intervened as an expert in the trial of the prosecutor - have decided to leave that body in the last hours. Both asked President Bertrán to approve the disapproval of Minister of Justice Dolores Delgado after pressures in the Junqueras case.

In addition, a new communiqué has begun to circulate like gunpowder among the members of said collective, stating that "without entering the merits of said judicial document, such an unusual condition, propagated on purpose in all media by ERC, constituted an unbearable interference in the independence of the Advocacy criterion "being" the crux of the problem "the" lack of reaction, immediate and forceful against the purpose of making the Advocacy an instrument at the service of partisan purposes ".

It also states that "yesterday's statement, allegedly ambiguous, is decaffeinated, confusing and, to a large extent, counterproductive. The circumstances in which it has occurred and, it seems, the immediate leak to ERC and the press, will make many believe that extortion has been bleached. "

The different sources consulted explain that a significant number of state lawyers are considering withdrawing from the association due to the discomfort generated by the report on the immunity of the former vice president of the Generalitat. Above all, for its harmful effects on the image of a body of officials that enjoyed great prestige until very recently.

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