MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Professional Association of the Judiciary (APM), the majority of judges, has expressed its “firmest rejection” of a future amnesty law that “has the clear objective of annulling the Judiciary” and has warned that it represents “the beginning of the end” of Spanish democracy.
“We intend to take one more step and place ourselves at the beginning of the end of our democracy. Break the rules of the 1978 Constitution and blow up the rule of law,” criticized the APM in a statement in which it recalled that has been warning “for a long time” about the serious deterioration of institutions and the rule of law itself.
The association considers “unacceptable and unacceptable for a full democracy” to promote a legal norm that “exonerates a few from criminal responsibilities, already declared by the Courts, or to be prosecuted, without prior legal modifications or without formally entering into a new constituent process”.
In this sense, he has stressed that an amnesty law “is not admissible in the Spanish Constitution of 1978” and “calls into question the work of the Spanish judges who applied the ordinary laws democratically prepared by the legislative power.”
“It delegitimizes the Rule of Law and the Legislative Power that promulgated the laws that the judges applied, sending the fallacious message that the legislator criminalizes and the courts condemn in Spain for political crimes,” he lamented in relation to the future norm, the which “breaks an essential principle in democracy, such as the separation of powers.”
Likewise, it has warned that this “violates the principle of equality in the application of laws by exempting a class of people from criminal liability solely based on the alleged political motivation of their actions.”
Furthermore, he added, it results in “the serious risk that the same treatment may be demanded by those who tried in other historical moments with the force of terror to achieve the independence of part of the territory, or misappropriated public funds invoking the same intention.”
“The law that, by definition and principle, is general, thus becomes a privilege, attacking the very foundation of the Social and Democratic State of Law,” added the APM.
In this way, he has expressed his rejection of an amnesty law that “has the clear objective of annulling the Judiciary”, the “last containment dam against abuses of power, arbitrariness and inequality before the law to privilege a few, the political class”.
In this sense, he has criticized the fact that the norm is being promoted “to have the necessary votes for an investiture”, although he has indicated that he will not comment on the fact that this norm is being agreed upon by the PSOE “with the top officials” of the “serious” crimes of October 1. “It is not up to us to value the ethics and principles of political actors, not even their absence,” he concluded.
