"We do not have the assistance of His Majesty the King. We feel enormous regret for this absence."

This is how the president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Calos Lesmes, began his speech at the ceremony for the delivery of offices to the latest class of judges, an act marked by the Government's veto of the King's presence in Barcelona.

"The presence of the King in the act", he continued, "goes far beyond the protocol. It has an enormous constitutional and political dimension, an expression of the permanent support of the Crown to the Judicial Power in its defense of the Constitution and the law. for the benefit of all the Spaniards we serve. [...] ".

"Our regret is not only due to the fact that it breaks with a tradition of more than 20 years, but also, and above all, because the presence of His Majesty the King, the Head of State, at the ceremony of delivery of dispatches to the new judges respond to the special constitutional bond of the Crown with the Judicial Power ".

Lesmes has thus closed the block of speech focused on the absence of the King: "Reiterating our regret for what happened, and whatever the circumstances that have motivated it, we express our firm desire that His Majesty the King can continue to encourage with his presence in Barcelona to the new judges ".

After knowing the forced absence of Felipe VI, the Permanent Commission of the governing body of the judges agreed that Lesmes would give the "institutional response" in the speech of the act held at the headquarters of the Judicial School.

In parallel, several members decided to issue a statement in which they "deeply" regretted the absence of the Monarch in Barcelona.

In that statement, the six members recall that, according to the Constitution, Justice "is administered in the name of the King, which is why it is customary for the main acts of Spanish judicial life -the opening of the judicial year and the delivery of dispatches to the new promotion - be presided over by the King ".

After learning that the Government had not authorized the presence of Felipe VI, three of the four judicial associations - the Professional Association of the Magistracy, the Francisco de Vitoria Association and the Independent Judicial Forum - issued separate communications demanding explanations, since the Government had not communicated to the CGPJ the reasons for its decision.

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