The president of the CGPJ urges politicians to stop attacks on judges: “Leave us alone”

2023-12-15 15:27:00

Updated: Dec 15, 2023 | 14:27
15 dic 2023 | 13:45

“Leave us alone.” It is the message that the president of the CGPJ, Vicente Guilarte, has sent, in full tension due to the accusations against judges, during an intervention in which he has urged the powers of the State not to be “complicit” in the “frequent and unjust attempts to delegitimization of the Judiciary” which, he has denounced, sometimes come from “representatives of public powers.”

This was expressed this Friday during the awards ceremony of the Observatory against Domestic and Gender Violence, where he warned of the “devastating effect” of these episodes, warning that they “undermine citizens’ confidence in Justice.”

Guilarte has stressed that sometimes they are carried out, precisely, by “representatives of the public powers to whom the ephemeral platform at their disposal facilitates their diatribe” as, as he said, “we saw on Tuesday in the Congress and the Senate.”

In this way he has alluded to the words of the Junts spokesperson, Míriam Nogueras, who asked to dismiss and try several judges of the Supreme Court, as well as to the demonstrations of Senator Josep Lluís Cleries and the ‘popular’ José Antonio Monago – in his case on the Gürtel ruling – in the Upper House. “Please reduce the tension, leave us alone,” she urged.

“No power of the State can be complicit in these campaigns either with their attitudes or with their silences,” has also stated the president of the governing body of the judges, who made these statements in the presence of Félix Bolaños, after the minister called this week to several judges appointed by Junts to assure them that the Government will defend judicial independence.

During his speech, Guilarte also addressed an appeal to the Judiciary itself: “Let us also assume our neutrality, often distorted, since judicial independence is bidirectional: not to their interference in ours, but not to ours in theirs either.” , has asked.

Furthermore, and in response to the attempts to summon judges to investigative commissions, the president of the CGPJ has also asserted that “no judge can be summoned by any commission to justify his jurisdictional procedure in an extravagant venue”: “Initiating this path would imply a clash that seems brutal between the powers of the State,” he warned.

Thus, he has called to “dilute the tension”, isolate oneself from political confrontation and “call for an adequate renewal of the CGPJ” that “promotes the future independence of the next Council.”