On January 10, the full session of Congress begins to debate the amendments against the amnesty law presented by the PP and Vox. According to parliamentary sources, the rule is expected to be approved in the Lower House in the last days of January and then go through the Senate procedure for final approval.

A procedure that can be delayed for two months and from which all the focus will be on the judges and their reaction to a law that should release nearly 400 people from their criminal, administrative and accounting processes.

Together, ERC and Sumar do not seem to want to reduce their accusations of judicial war – lawfare – to the members of the judicial career, whom they directly accuse of having led a judicial persecution against pro-independence leaders for their political ideology. This battle will be substantiated in the investigative commissions created in Congress.

Both parliamentary and judicial sources assume that in the coming months the tension between the two powers of the State will increase.

Judges and magistrates feel the victims of a direct attack on their independence. The institutional shock experienced in recent months, especially after the general elections of July 23, has been unprecedented.

The agreement between the PSOE and Junts para la investiture, with which the socialists implicitly assume the thesis of the existence of the lawfare defended by the pro-independence parties, put the entire judiciary on a war footing, with explicit and clear statements from presidents of the main judicial bodies, including the Supreme Court.

The statements of several members of the Spanish Government, including the president, Pedro Sánchez, have not managed to overcome the mistrust and the consequent escalation of tension. The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, has tried to calm the waters with firm statements in defense of judicial independence. As has been done by the Minister of the Interior and judge of Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who in an interview in La Vanguardia stated that in Spain there is no case of lawfare, not even in the cause known as the Democratic Tsunami, for which ex-president Carles Puigdemont is being prosecuted for crimes of terrorism and which is being investigated by Manuel García-Castellón.

This is the scenario, tense and complex, in which the judiciary will have to administer the amnesty law and apply it to the one who has managed to escape for the moment, the former president of the Generalitat. What happens with Puigdemont will be intimately linked to the stability of the legislature.

In the midst of this climate and almost against the odds, the PSOE and the PP reached an agreement in principle to try to appease the institutional crisis and announced that they would resume negotiations to unblock the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ ), who has been in office for more than five years, twice his mandate.

Since the appointment of its twenty members must be approved by three-fifths of the Spanish Parliament, the two major parties are bound to an agreement, unless they change their majorities for the election, an option that cannot be ruled out.

Europe has warned actively and passively that this situation cannot be prolonged any longer, but the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been established in the no, if there is no previous change in the law for the way of electing the members of the CGPJ.

The last meeting of the leaders of the two parties left open the possibility of consensus from the European Commission, which would act as a verifier. CGPJ sources trust in the agreement to recover credibility and the institutional prestige eroded in recent years.