The President of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, called this Thursday for compliance with the “principle of non-interference” between state institutions. “Each power must carry out its own function independently and avoid public disqualifications,” emphasized Conde-Pumpido during a speech at the opening ceremony of the XXIX. Conference of the Association of Constitutional Lawyers, which takes place in Vigo. The admonition of the President of the Guarantee Authority is linked to the criticism that the Court has received since its last renewal in January last year, in the sense that the current progressive majority acts with rolling formulas to impose its theses and to approve government initiatives support . The court’s own media emphasize that this criticism coincides with the negotiations of the ongoing investiture process and the expected debate about a possible amnesty law.
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Conde-Pumpido focused his speech this Thursday on defending the independence and impartiality of judges and prosecutors as an essential part of the rule of law, calling on all public representatives to respect the laws in force and comply with the decisions of the judicial authorities. In this sense, he emphasized that independence is an indispensable principle and inseparable from the judicial function. The absence of this, he added, represents “a clear setback for democratic quality and the separation of powers.”
Likewise, he emphasized the importance of respect between the powers of the State and the institutions, a point in which he pointed to the relevance of the “principle of non-interference” in the work of each of them. In this passage of his speech, he also defended respect for the independence of each institution so that all can carry out their tasks and called for avoiding disqualification of “the actions of the other powers”. In his opinion, violating this pattern of behavior only contributes to “weakening the strength of the entire system,” because disqualifications “must be alien to a democratic understanding of function.”
Conde-Pumpido also defended the democratic legitimacy of all state powers, recalling that the Constitution states that “national sovereignty rests with the Spanish people, from whom state powers emanate.” And he emphasized that the expression “all powers of the State” obviously includes the judiciary, as Article 117 expressly proclaims when it proclaims that “justice emanates from the people.”
On the other hand, the President of the Constitutional Court also claimed the validity of the rule of law. “Laws,” he said, “must be obeyed, and the fact that we do not like a law or want to change it cannot be an excuse for non-compliance with the current law, let alone for prolonged non-compliance,” which is indefinite It threatens to take time.” . In a clear allusion to the almost five years in which the constitutional mandate to renew the General Council of the Judiciary has not been fulfilled, he added that there are democratic procedures for changing the laws; But unless they are changed, “the current laws bind all of us, judges, citizens and the rest of the public power.”
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With this contribution, Conde-Pumpido opened the conference entitled “Rule of law and democratic institutions in the current socio-political context”, accompanied by the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, and the first vice president and council member of the Presidency, Justice and Sport of the Xunta de Galicia, Diego Calvo. The conference is part of the above-mentioned meeting of the lawyers of the surety board in its twenty-ninth edition.
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