2023-12-05 13:44:58
The Permanent Commission of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the so-called hard core of the institution, has dividedly approved a new declaration in which the governing body of the judges shows its “frontal rejection” of the allusions to the ‘ lawfare’ or judicialization of politics included in the agreement between the PSOE and Junts for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
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The text has been approved with the casting vote of the president, Vicente Guilarte, and the support of progressive members Roser Bach and Mar Cabrejas. The conservatives José Antonio Ballestero, Ángeles Carmona and Carmen Llombart, who had requested an extraordinary meeting to address this issue, have voted against, considering that the agreement is “insufficient” and “needs to be expanded.” The member Pilar Sepúlveda, elected at the proposal of the PSOE, has voted blank.
The finally approved text expands on a previous one approved on November 9 and which described as “inadmissible” the references to ‘lawfare’ contained in the aforementioned agreement and showed its “frontal rejection” of the eventual constitution of parliamentary investigation commissions to investigate the ‘judicial war’ against the independence movement, which angered all the associations of judges and prosecutors. In fact, after the commotion created, the PSOE later explained that Parliament will not supervise sentences and will only take into account the conclusions of parliamentary investigations already committed.
The agreement approved today by the Permanent Commission adds that the CGPJ “will remain vigilant, in defense of judicial independence, in relation to the development of the aforementioned parliamentary investigation commissions.”
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