• Iglesias and Montero charge the judges after sentencing their spokesman in Madrid for assaulting the Police

For the second time since the leader of Unidas Podemos Pablo Iglesias is part of the Government, the Judicial Power publicly reprimands his words attacking the judges. The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has issued a statement on Thursday showing its "absolute and resounding rejection" of the statements made this Wednesday by the Vice President of the Government questioning the actions of the magistrates of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM ) who sentenced the spokeswoman for Podemos, Isa Serra , for a crime of attack on law enforcement officers.

The governing body of the judges maintains that, "in its capacity as guarantor of judicial independence, it cannot but express its deep unease with respect to statements made by a member of the Government of the Nation in which it not only questions a judicial action, but also spreads a suspicion of lack of impartiality of the Spanish judges, who according to him would grant unequal and privileged treatment to groups that, due to their influence and contacts, would be unpunished to the action of justice. "

"These affirmations deserve an absolute and resounding rejection, since beyond the legitimate right to criticism they generate an unacceptable suspicion regarding the behavior of courts and tribunals when it is public, well-known and recognized that these, over time, have given plenty of samples of their independence, impartiality and objectivity, whatever the political or social position of the accused, as it could not be otherwise by those who have promised or sworn to fulfill and enforce the Constitution and the laws, "the members continue.

In addition, in its communiqué the Council lists some of the sentences imposed in recent times for corruption cases that have affected different institutions, parties or public figures such as the Nóos case , the Gürtel plot , the ERE or the so-called black 'cards' '.

"Huge feeling of injustice"

After knowing the conviction for Serra, Pablo Iglesias, through his account on the social network Twitter, stated that "the sentences are complied with (and in this case are appealed) but a huge sense of injustice invades me. In Spain many people he feels that very powerful corrupts go unpunished thanks to their privileges and contacts, while those who protested a shameful eviction are sentenced. "

The communiqué of the governing body of the judges has been approved with the votes in favor of the president of the Supreme Court and the CGPJ, Carlos Lesmes; and of the members of the Permanent Commission José Antonio Ballestero, Álvaro Cuesta, Juan Manuel Fernández, Juan Martínez Moya and Pilar Sepúlveda . The vocal Rafael Mozo has voted against.

On January 15, the Council issued another statement in defense of the judges when Vice President Iglesias pointed out, in an interview on Antena 3 , that the European justice had humiliated the Spanish, referring to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the immunity as MEP of the leader of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras and the refusals on the Euroorders against the fugitives. On that occasion, the Permanent Commission asked the leader of Unidas Podemos for institutional responsibility. This Thursday the governing body of the judges has again appealed to that responsibility and measure "to avoid the political use of Justice or the questioning of the independence, impartiality and professionalism of the judges and magistrates." "The first obligation of a public official is not to contribute to the loss of prestige of democratic institutions and, within them, of the Judiciary," stresses the CGPJ.

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