Cristina Rubio Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Monday, February 26, 2024-14:08
The president of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), Jesús María Barrientos, has attacked the Amnesty Law that the Government of Pedro Sánchez is negotiating against the clock with Junts and has dismantled a large part of the socialist argument by calling it an "element of discord ".
A criticism that comes just a few days before the deadline established in Congress (March 7) for the Justice Commission to give the green light to the rule expires.
"A law that privileges a few over the entire citizenry can never be used as an element of pacification but rather of discord, as evidenced by the academic debates raised by the so-called 'amnesty law' currently being processed in parliament," he warned. Barrientos explicitly mentioning Sánchez's text and the independence movement.
This is how the president of the TSJC has positioned himself during the inauguration of the new judges in Catalonia, an act that he has led together with the member of the CGPJ, Núria Díaz;
the top prosecutor of Catalonia, Francisco Bañeres;
and the Minister of Justice of the Generalitat, Gemma Ubasart.
In this sense, Barrientos has also demanded the "effective application of the laws" - by judges - to all citizens "on an equal basis, without exceptions or privileges, in short, without spaces of impunity."
"I have heard it said to me on other occasions. The law is either general or it is not a law," said the president of the TSJC to warn that "laws are approved, they can be reformed and also repealed by those who only have the authority to do so, the Legislative Branch".
A message that he has been repeating for weeks but that has been clarified even more today, when there are just 10 days left for the PSOE and Junts to reach an agreement with the Amnesty Law.
Barrientos has thus deepened his position against the amnesty in the swearing-in ceremony of the 44 judges who will join Catalan courts that was held this Monday at the Palau de Justicia, and who last week received their offices in a event presided over by King Felipe VI.