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PH Matellano
Alvaro Carvajal
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-23:04
Amnesty Law Sánchez's associates attack judges by name and surname from the congressional rostrum
Politics The PSOE accuses the judges of trying to boycott the amnesty: "Every time the Executive moves a chip, a judge moves a chip"
On up to 12 occasions, Pedro Sánchez
's parliamentary partners
, including Sumar - with whom he shares the coalition Government - yesterday pronounced the names of judges
Manuel García-Castellón
,
Joaquín Aguirre
and
Manuel Marchena
during the debate on the Amnesty Law. They did so to harshly censure from the speakers' gallery the actions of the three magistrates linked to the different judicial processes related to 1-O, going so far as to accuse them of having incurred in "prevarication" without the president of the Lower House,
Francina Armengol
, at no time reprimanded the deputies in charge of giving voice to these criticisms.
Míriam Nogueras
, spokesperson for Junts, made four offensive mentions of Aguirre, two of García-Castellón and one of Marchena;
Martina Velarde
(Vamos), pointed out García-Castellón three times, explicitly, focusing her entire intervention on him, and
Gerardo Pisarello
(Sumar) also dedicated the speech to the "judge of the National Court who is a friend of
Aznar
", whom he cited also twice expressly. Against this barrage, the PSOE spokesperson in the debate,
Francisco Aranda
, made a lukewarm defense, barely a reproach because proper names were used.
Given the battery of insults to the judges, and hours before going to Brussels for a meeting with the European Commissioner for Justice,
Didier Reynders ,
Félix Bolaños
had to intervene
at the conclusion of the debate. The Minister of the Presidency and Justice wanted to show in a "clear" way his "absolute rejection" of these statements. «Spain is a State of Law, with judges who carry out their work professionally and with rigor. And, of course, you can disagree with their decisions, for that the Rule of Law itself provides tools and resources to be able to challenge those decisions," he added.
Sources from the PSOE leadership had conveyed their own criticism this Monday, stating that every time Congress takes another step to erase the crimes of those prosecuted for 1-O, a magistrate "makes a move" to try to boycott it. In public, however, yesterday they avoided insisting on that thesis, which Sumar endorsed.
Representing the minority party in the Government, Gerardo Pisarello harshly attacked García-Castellón, in charge of the investigation of the so-called Democratic Tsunami case that is investigating the protests in October 2019 against the procés sentence as a possible act of
terrorism
. He called the judge of the National Court "partial" and ruled that he "deserves to be accused of prevarication or directly challenged" in cases that affect the independence movement. I review a history that, in his opinion, links García-Castellón with the exculpation of
Esperanza Aguirre
or
Cospedal
, among others related to the PP.
Junts spokesperson,
Míriam Nogueras
, had previously criticized him for "taking crimes out of his pocket" and denounced that "the adaptation of the judicial agenda to the political agenda is so blatant that no arguments are even necessary." Likewise, she accused Aguirre, who is in charge of the alleged Russian plot linked to 1-O, for "walking around on European television prevaricating", and also put Marchena, president of the Supreme Court that judged 1-O, in the bag. In his speech, he accused the PSOE of not daring to break with "Francoism", which he linked to the judiciary.
From Podemos, they expressly pointed out García-Castellón as a representative of the "judicial right" and "
lawfare
", the term with which the independentistas suggest that there is a dirty war in the courts against them.
Pilar Vallugera
(ERC) did not give surnames, but she did criticize the magistrates: she assured that they "clearly prevaricate" because "they want to wreck" the law. "They are continually fabbling and we are falling into their trap of modifying it based on completely spurious interests," argued the deputy.
The representative of Bildu
Jon Iñarritu
denounced "the dark movements of the depth of the State in the judicial sphere, in the police sphere and in some media as well" which he said are not "a coincidence", but something "organized and coordinated ». He also spoke of “prevaricating judges.”