After the speech by the president of the CGPJ,

Carlos Lesmes

, the usual groups, still limited by the pandemic, took place next to the Plenary Hall of the Supreme Court in which the judicial year had just opened solemnly.

In one of them, Felipe VI offered his summary of what he had just heard from the president of the General Council of the Judiciary: "He has read the primer to all of you."

They listened to him, in addition to Lesmes himself and some members of the CGPJ, the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop;

the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado;

the party's head of Justice,

Enrique López

;

and the president of the Senate, the socialist

Ander Gil

.

They were the main recipients of the harsh speech Lesmes had just delivered.

The primer to which the King referred had been especially long in what corresponded to the Government, which Lesmes criticized for approving the law that limits the functions of the Council and for promoting another that eliminated the consensus necessary for the renewal, finally vetoed by the European Union.

The harshest reproach Llop had just heard was the one addressed to the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, for equating the 1-O sentence with the word "revenge."

Legal sources explain that Lesmes was doubting whether or not he included such a clear reference to the Prime Minister.

Finally he did so, and also at the very beginning of his intervention, as the first example of the Government's attacks on judicial independence.

That response to Sánchez, as well as the speech in general, has been well received by the Supreme Court judges consulted.

In the High Court, Sánchez's way of opening the way to pardons at the expense of Justice was especially outraged.

Thin, absent

The person who did not listen to the King's phrase-summary was the State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, who left the Supreme Court as soon as the King concluded the act.

In Lesmes's speech, which was preceded by Delgado's own, there were no reproaches to the Prosecutor's Office.

Even so, Delgado could feel perfectly concerned, as Minister of Justice during part of the three-year delay in the renewal of the CGPJ.

It was not a comfortable act for her for other reasons.

The King Emeritus attacked the Prosecutor's Office last week for the way it is conducting the investigation.

And among those who circulated in the cliques there were magistrates of the Supreme Court who in just over a month will decide whether to annul his appointment as attorney general.


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