Half of the fiscal dome demands Delgado to defend before Congress and the PSOE the autonomy of the Prosecutor's Office

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A total of 16 Chamber prosecutors, that is, the prosecutors of the highest category in the Prosecution Career have sent this Friday after 1:30 p.m. a letter to the State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, requesting that she address the socialist parliamentary group and the Congress of Deputies to withdraw the amendment registered in the Bankruptcy Law that gives the Government greater control over the

In addition, in that same amendment, the PSOE intended to promote Delgado to Salary Prosecutor when she ceased to hold office.

"The establishment of an obligation for the State Attorney General consisting of informing the Government, even on his own initiative, about matters of special importance that, due to their nature and relevance, he must know unequivocally represents a reinforcement of the dependency relationship of the Attorney General of the State with respect to the Government, and with it of the institution itself, as well as a significant breach of autonomy and independence with respect to it, which is absolutely incompatible with the constitutional model of the Public Prosecutor's Office," the letter to the that

has had access to .

The 16 signing prosecutors, including two former State Attorney Generals -

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- maintain that the new legal provision promoted by Pedro Sánchez's party "consecrates a privilege by virtue of which the Executive Power, beyond the criminal policy relations that it must maintain with the institution for the proper functioning of the Administration of Justice, through the action carried out by the Public Prosecutor's Office, it would have extra-procedural access that would allow it to know first-hand the content of judicial proceedings and especially sensitive investigations, particularly criminal ones, to which no one other than the parties to the process should have access, with the exception of the duty to inform public opinion for which the Prosecutor is empowered in the terms provided by article 4.5 of the Organic Statute".

In the amendment registered by the PSOE, a possibility is drawn that the current

of the Public Prosecutor's Office does not contemplate in the relations of the Executive with the attorney general.

Currently, the Government can only urge the opening of an investigation, but with the legal reform, the Executive Branch will also be able to request information on open cases and the Attorney General himself will offer it motu proprio.

In this sense, half of the fiscal dome considers that "the statutory modifications that are intended to be made through the amendments presented to the bankruptcy bill are legally unfeasible."

"Suspicion of dependence on the Government"

"It is the unanimous opinion of those who sign this document that the possible future statutory modifications should only be addressed in the context of a more general reform of the Organic Statute that encompasses structural issues (such as the restructuring and increase of its plant or budgetary autonomy), organic and functional aimed at preparing the institution for the change of the current criminal procedural model, assuming the direction of the investigations, which strengthen the independence of its performance as an institution and that remove once and for all the permanent suspicions of interference and dependence on power executive," reads the document.

"For all these reasons, the undersigned, all of them belonging to the first category of the Public Prosecutor's Office (Prosecutors of the Supreme Court Chamber) are interested in Your Excellency that, as soon as possible, you transmit this document, through the legally established channels, to the Congress of the Deputies and the Parliamentary Group proposing these amendments for the purpose of reconsidering their processing and proceeding to their immediate withdrawal for the reasons that we have just explained," the letter ends.

The signing prosecutors are of both progressive and conservative sensibilities:

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