The interim president of the General Council of Justice (CGPJ), Vicente Guilarte, has called an extraordinary plenary session next Monday, February 5, in response to the request from nine members of the conservative sector. The aim of the call is to analyze and respond to the criticisms and disqualifications expressed by speakers of several political groups last Tuesday in the House of Representatives during a plenary session in which the Lower House finally rejected the proposed amnesty law for those involved in the Catalan independence process.
The agenda sent to members for next Monday states that the meeting will focus on a “statement by the entire Council on the statements collected in the media on January 30 at the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies and on all questions arising from them.” . “
The members of the progressive sector have reservations about this call, in particular because they believe that it is one thing to defend the independence of the judiciary and quite another to introduce restrictions on freedom of expression and the inviolability of parliamentarians, although they do admit The statements heard in this debate were baseless and represented excesses that the President of the Chamber, Francina Armengol, should in any case not prevent or blame.
In the letter calling for the plenary session to be held, the President of the Congress was accused of acting with “indulgence” and “mutism” in the face of criticism of the judges, which was particularly severe in the case of Junts speaker Míriam. Nogueras, who described the judges as “evaders” in several passages in his speech. Gerardo Pisarello, MP for Sumar, a party that forms the coalition government, also spoke in the lower house of “judges escaping”. Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont also joined the criticism on social networks. In a message sent on
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