The impression of a state attorney general being convicted of a serious crime is as unusual as it is regrettable. Once the court’s deliberations were decided, the Government and the party which supports it launched themselves for the jugular of Justice without a minimum of respect. … institutional. Seeing the president of the government, almost simultaneously with the delivery of the judgment, affirm the innocence of “his” prosecutor constitutes an exercise of imprudence and intolerable arrogance which has turned against himself. The immediate deployment of state television, ferocious, extremely misleading, is contrary to its own raison d’être and respect for the truth, going so far as to qualify as unfair a judicial decision not yet known in its final version. It is truly aberrant that programs follow one another in a constant insult to those who deviate from the Government’s orientations.
This is not the path to a consolidated democracy. The government’s unjust and disproportionate attack on the judiciary clashes head-on with the principle of separation of powers and the foundation of the rule of law. The ministers and their collaborators attacked the judges; Even a vice-president of the government urged people to take to the streets, promoting a demonstration against the judiciary and “in favor of democracy”.
Spain is perhaps experiencing the most critical and dangerous moment of its incomplete democracy. The president of the government is surrounded by a legal procedure of capital importance, which involves his most intimate family circle, his wife and his brother indicted for serious crimes, those who were close collaborators and “his” prosecutor convicted. Justice advances slowly but inexorably and unyieldingly and cannot be overpowered or hindered by the many efforts made by other powers of the State.
For the Government and its partners, judges are fascist enemies and they spread it to the four winds, ignoring that justice professionals do not know discouragement and continue to fulfill their function in an exemplary manner without diminishing their independence. The Executive does not skimp on tricks to undermine its constitutional role. Today, they intend to deprive them of the investigation of criminal proceedings, by making it fall on the prosecutors, without realizing that the lack of infrastructure of the public prosecutor’s offices and of a constitutionally declared independent base makes the project very difficult to carry out.
In circles close to the president, there was some concern when the investigating judge in certain proceedings against his wife returned the jurisdiction to hear them to the jury court, unaware that this is provided for in Article 1 of the Jury Act itself, which has just turned 30 years old. Sometimes the jury, reminiscent of a bygone era, does not seem to place enough trust in citizens, who will always prefer a trial before professional judges.
The government does not govern. He devotes himself to other trifles, with an increasingly small minority in Parliament and begging for membership in exchange for disconcerting concessions and, most of the time, contrary to the principle of equality between communities, as is the case of Catalonia, which he pampers to unsuspected limits while openly despising others for the simple fact of being governed by other political parties. The attitude of the president, who launches lies and promises that he never respects, has generated a clear confrontation between the right and the left, which is transmitted to society itself. It’s a rare weekend when the streets are not besieged by demonstrations of all kinds around the most diverse realities. But the people suffer the consequences of disgrace. Young people, in particular, do not have access to housing and self-employed workers, traders, breeders, fishermen and professionals of all kinds complain that they cannot even match their income with their expenses; The basket advances uncontrollably, which is indicative of social well-being. The Government seems indifferent, forgets its formally acquired commitments (Dana, La Palma, fires, etc.), and shows absolute inaction to effectively regulate capitalist hypotheses such as the reality of migration or the policy against drug trafficking; Civil servants are unnecessarily calling for more effective instruments and greater contribution from human resources. The battle against drug traffickers is still lost.
In short, Spain is in a constant and progressive decline, which the government has no control over. The Executive has seized the highest institutions, with the exception of the Judicial Power, and the Constitutional Court always seems to be waiting for the moment to openly favor the friends of the Government, by influencing the sphere of competence of the ordinary courts and shamelessly exceeding its powers.
Difficult situation because the president hesitates to call elections out of pure personal selfishness and to be able to protect himself from possible condemnations from his closest relatives. Meanwhile, the government remains virtually inactive while awaiting events. Spain doesn’t deserve it.
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