Koldo and Kitchen. Beginning with K are the ugliest matters that the two main parties have open in the National Court, the jurisdiction created in 1977 to prosecute terrorism crimes and large-scale drug trafficking cases, a unified national jurisdiction, based in Madrid, which Over the years it has become the breakwater for criminal cases with the greatest political tension.
The big political scandals end up at the National Court before going to the Supreme Court if among the people investigated there is a class A judge. (Regional judges are the responsibility of the respective higher courts.) A summary opened in the Court National goes through the Supreme Court if, for example, among those investigated there is a deputy or a senator. This explains why on some occasions the judges of the Court are not in a great hurry to charge a person with jurisdiction, waiting for the summary to mature further. This circumstance could explain the current situation of José Luis Ábalos, who has decided to keep his seat despite the PSOE’s demand that he renounce his deputy status. The fact that legal proceedings have not yet been opened against him does not necessarily mean that there are no suspicions about his role in the Koldo case. It is possible that Judge Ismael Moreno is waiting for the investigation to be more mature, so as not to lose the case at its beginning.
In the event that the former Minister of Development and Transport and former organizational secretary of the PSOE were subjected to judicial investigation and decided to keep his seat, his case would go to the Supreme Court, and Judge Manuel Marchena, president of the Criminal Chamber, could end up having on his table two decisive summaries for the outcome of the legislature: the Puigdemont summary and the Ábalos summary. It would be a very special moment.
In the amnesty legislature, the magistrate who presided over the trial of the Catalan independence movement’s senior staff would end up having in his hands two key summaries for the narrative conclusion of a political time in which the PSOE, depending on the evolution of events , could end up being a living dead.
Koldo and Kitchen. The meticulous investigation carried out by the central operational unit of the Civil Guard, under the orders of Judge Moreno, explained in great detail last Sunday by journalists Carlota Guindal and Joaquín Vera in La Vanguardia, has been a highly effective work, that shows the muscles of the separation of powers and the maturity of democracy in Spain. We can be sure that the National Court will end up investigating with equal care the leadership of the Popular Party that could have been involved in the illegal use of the Police to neutralize Luis Bárcenas in the Gürtel case. The investigation is almost finished and there is still no date for the oral trial, which will not be urgent as there are no defendants in prison.
It all starts with K. Koldo and Kitchen. Many things are being tested in Spain and one of them is the symmetry exercises in the unified national jurisdiction created the day after the dissolution of the Public Order Court.
