The Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García, has today demanded “institutional loyalty” to all public powers, in the midst of the controversy over the amnesty and the serious accusations of ‘lawfare’ against prosecutors and judges linked to causes of the process.
García, who took office today, has thus issued these warnings to part of the prosecutor’s career that has criticized him for his lack of support or passivity in defense of certain prosecutors accused by the Catalan independence movement of carrying out a judicial persecution. for his political ideas.
He also did not want to comment on the amnesty. In fact, he has yet to respond to the Senate’s request to report on the bill, just as has been requested from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). Fiscal sources explain that until now the upper house had not responded because he was in office and García understood that he was not appropriate. Once he takes office, he will respond to such a request.
Once the inauguration took place, García went to the State Attorney General’s Office to give his first speech of this second term, after the re-election to his position by the Government.
At the event, in which the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, was present, the attorney general insisted that “there is nothing outside the law.”
Thus, he has made a plea to respect the powers of each of the powers. “The fulfillment of their responsibilities, their legal and constitutional functions, is something that cannot be neglected or extended,” he stressed.
García has insisted that he will not take sides on strictly political issues, “since citizens’ trust in public servants is based not only on our impartiality, but also on the appearance of impartiality.”
“I do not pretend to be a commentator on current political or judicial affairs. I will always remain—and thus I will maintain the institution—in the legal space. If the Attorney General abandons that scenario, he places himself in an ideal place for the media contest, for associative activism, and not for the correct performance of his constitutional function,” he stressed.
On the other hand, García has issued a warning to all those prosecutors who deviate from the order established within the institution. “Whoever hopes to find in the Prosecutor’s Office a place for his mere personal projection, to achieve other purposes than the custody of the law and the right or the satisfaction of social interest, who seeks other returns that are not professional and for the benefit of the institution, will have no place in this renewed path that begins today,” he warned.
At the entrance to the inauguration at the Supreme Court, Bolaños made a mention of the inclusion of the crime of terrorism in the amnesty law, as long as human rights are not violated. “Let’s be serious, does anyone think that the independence process is comparable to the terrorism that Spain suffered for decades?”
The minister’s argument is that terrorism, understood as that committed by ETA through murders and attacks, will not be amnestied. “It is a law to normalize the political, institutional and social situation in Catalonia.” Bolaños has insisted that the objective of the law is to definitively overcome “a very deep wound.”
