MADRID, 20 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Fiscal Council unanimously agreed this Wednesday to protect the prosecutors of the ‘procés’ against accusations of alleged ‘lawfare’, although the members of the Association of Prosecutors (AF), at whose request this matter has been debated In plenary, they believe that the approved declaration is insufficient, so they will not sign it.
According to the tax sources consulted by Europa Press, all members of the advisory body – both conservative and progressive – have agreed to grant protection in accordance with article 118 of the Regulations of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, according to which every prosecutor has the right to ” go to the Fiscal Council for protection when they consider themselves disturbed or disturbed in the exercise of their functions.”
However, the six members of the AF consider that the approved declaration is insufficient, especially in light of the pronouncements made by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) regarding judges and magistrates.
The Fiscal Council has analyzed the request made by the members of the AF – the majority in the fiscal career -, which was later joined by the member of the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF).
The members proposed the “approval of the express protection, recognition and support of the Fiscal Council for the actions of the members of the Prosecutor’s Office in all procedures linked to or derived from the so-called ‘procés’, carried out without exception in accordance with current legislation and without admit any deviation in them due to political motivation”.
In their writing, to which this news agency had access, the six members of the AF indicated that, “on the occasion of the publication of the agreement signed between the PSOE and Junts (…), the adaptation to the constitutional principles of the prosecutors who have intervened and still continue to intervene in the judicial processes affected by such proposition”.
They were thus referring to the part of the agreement that talks about creating parliamentary investigation commissions to detect possible cases of ‘lawfare’ and clarify the corresponding responsibilities, which opens the door to sanctioning the judges and prosecutors who prosecuted the ‘procés’.
As a result of the PSOE-Junts agreement, the prosecutors of the ‘procés’ – Javier Zaragoza, Consuelo Madrigal, Fidel Cadena and Jaime Moreno – sent a letter to García Ortiz asking for “institutional protection”, although the head of the Public Ministry limited himself to answer them that he would “always” defend the “autonomy” of these and other prosecutors.
In response, 18 of the 26 prosecutors of the Supreme Court addressed their own letter to García Ortiz, reproaching him for “deliberately” ignoring the request of his four colleagues “in the face of the unjustified attacks to which they are being subjected.”
Subsequently, 22 of the 29 Anti-Corruption prosecutors expressed their “deep concern for the validity of the Rule of Law”, showing their support for the ‘procés’ prosecutors in their request for “institutional protection.”
In this context, García Ortiz assured, during a conference of civil law prosecutors in Córdoba, that all prosecutors in Spain can be “calm” because they will “always” act “in defense of their careers.”
