The deputy chairman of the General Council of Justice (CGPJ), Vicente Guilarte, praised this Wednesday that the PSOE had admitted that judges were not obliged to appear before parliamentary commissions of inquiry to speak about their actions, but regretted that this was not the case The case was defended by the Socialists when they signed the agreement with Junts on the investiture of Pedro Sánchez a month ago. “Welcome are those words that, if defended in a different moment or scenario, might not have captured the troubling Anglicism [lawfare] in every document and we would certainly have spared ourselves the tensions that we experienced,” said Guilarte. On Tuesday, Justice Minister Félix Bolaños pointed out that judges “have no obligation to participate in commissions of inquiry” and that it would be “pointless” to convene them because “the law prevents them” from disclosing facts of which they are aware by virtue of their office had a jurisdictional function.
As he did last Friday, Guilarte once again used his intervention at an event organized by the CGPJ – the Justice and Disability Forum Awards Ceremony – to comment on the open crisis between the judges and the government. In his speech last week, the interim president claimed that the appointment of judges to congressional investigative commissions, as the Catalan independence parties intend, “would mean a seemingly brutal conflict between the powers of the state.” Guilarte believes that Bolaños' words, in which he defends that the judges are not obliged to appear represents a kind of correction and calls on the government to “continue in full the line taken”. “Conscious of the express uselessness, the obedient appointment (of judges to these commissions) would not be understood for purposes beyond my reach,” said the President, who also considers this possibility The appointment of judges to Parliament “would be any “This will forever destroy the possibility of an agreement for the renewal of the CGPJ”. “Please don’t let us down,” he urged politicians.
Guilarte again referred to the words of Junts' congressional spokesperson Miriam Nogueras, who last week described several Supreme Court justices as “indecent.” “We are not indecent. “I would like to never hear that again,” said Guilarte, for whom the demonstrations in Nogueras “represented proof of the boundless disregard for human dignity and the labeling of those who have done nothing other than comply with the demands to maintain the constitutional order.”
The interim president – the CGPJ's mandate has expired five years ago – has also asked the government not to release classified information such as the secret documents on the CNI's wiretapping of Pere Aragonès. These words come after Bolaños said this Wednesday that if a judge requests clearance, “and it has no impact on national security, it will happen.” “There is a public commitment from the government that comes from behind and which means absolute transparency in this matter. With a clear conscience and for clarification, we will release what the judges ask of us, although national security takes precedence,” Bolaños clarified. However, Guilarte has questioned this possibility. “If it is in your power not to call us [a las comisiones de investigación] It is also important not to encourage the same differences of opinion by releasing as false dissemination facts that are completely outside the context in which they arose,” he stressed.
CGPJ sources have indicated that the President was not referring to requests for release from the judiciary, but to those that have nothing to do with it, such as those from political parties, which can appear, especially within the framework of the investigative commissions. agreed between the PSOE and the independents. There are certain concerns in the Supreme Court about the possibility that these commissions will request the release of the decisions of Pablo Lucas, the chief justice in charge of judicial control of the activities of the CNI.
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