The Supreme Court prosecutors want the State Attorney General, Álvaro García, to make a clear defense of the prosecutors of the process against the accusations of ‘lawfare’ by the pro-independence parties, mainly Junts. For now, García has avoided making an explicit statement as the presidents of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) have done.
Thus, 21 Chamber prosecutors and prosecutors from the Criminal Section of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office, in relation to the attacks, insults and threats made by the Junts Deputy in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, against several judges of the Supreme Court, the Court Constitutional Court and senior officials of the Civil Guard, as well as against several journalists, whom they point out for having acted professionally for political and ideological reasons in some judicial processes in which they have intervened, ask the attorney general to act.
In the statement, they wanted to express their “strongest rejection of the insults, threats and false accusations made, taking refuge in the parliamentary forum, against the aforementioned people, since they are not only seriously harmful to the personal and institutional dignity of those affected ( members of other powers of the State), but are also absolutely incompatible with the ethics and institutional respect of a State governed by the rule of law”.
They consider that it represents an “unjustifiable attack” against judicial independence and against the separation of powers as the backbone principle of a democratic society. Likewise, they remember that article 124.1 of the Constitution expressly establishes that: “The Public Prosecutor’s Office, without prejudice to the functions entrusted to other bodies, has the mission of promoting the action of justice in defense of legality, of the rights of citizens. and the public interest protected by law, ex officio or at the request of the interested parties, as well as ensuring the independence of the Courts and seeking before them the satisfaction of the social interest.”
Hence, they demand that García adopt the appropriate measures “to preserve the legality and independence of the courts, whose actions are being unduly questioned by the aforementioned demonstrations.”
