Five Civil Guard associations, the majority of which include the Civil Guard Judiciary (Jucil), have issued a statement criticizing the PSOE’s agreements with the Basque and Catalan nationalist parties. They, in turn, describe the establishment of commissions of inquiry in Congress or regional parliaments into the application of the amnesty law as an “attack on the waterline of the independence of the judiciary.” The text is known hours after the Interior Ministry announced the initiation of proceedings against those responsible for another association, Aprogc, for a statement against the amnesty in which its authors expressed their willingness to “shed” their blood.
The text published this Saturday by the other five associations is much more cautious in its wording. In it, Jucil, the Spanish Association of the Civil Guard (AEGC), the Association of Noncommissioned Officers of the Scale (ASES-GC), the Union of the Guardia Civil and the Professional Association of Noncommissioned Officers of the Guardia Civil (APC-GC) affirm that they after taking note of the agreement signed on Thursday between the PSOE and Junts, on which the investigative commissions report, want to express their “rejection of this measure”. They describe it as “an attack on the waterline of judicial independence.” Furthermore, they add that “it violates the separation of powers, the cornerstone of the rule of law.”
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Referring to other agreements, they denounce that “the intention is for the Guardia Civil to lose its powers and for the Guardia Civil and their families to be expelled from the Basque Country and Catalonia,” which they say they will not tolerate. They also denounce that the agreements provide for “injecting significant economic sums into the regional police” and curtailing the powers of the armed institute. They claim that these agreements give them the feeling that the Civil Guard is being used “as a bargaining chip in the negotiations to form a government,” which will have “serious lasting consequences for the security of citizens.” However, contrary to Aprogc’s statement, also against the amnesty law, they refer to Organic Law 2/86 of March 13 on Security Forces and Corps, which stipulates that these forces will carry out their functions “in absolute respect” of the Constitution and the rest of the legal system.”
In the last two weeks, the Interior has opened proceedings against two associations for statements against the amnesty law, considering that the texts violate the principle of political neutrality that binds all members of the Civil Guard and that is contained in the preamble and articles 5 of the law enshrines the Law on Security Forces and Corps of 1986. In addition to the law opened on Friday for Aprogc, another was opened on October 29 against Jucil – one of the associations that signed that Saturday – for a message in the social Network initiated
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