Regrets that Rodríguez assured that Moncloa is guiding the interpretation of the norm through the Prosecutor’s Office
MADRID, 17 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Association of Prosecutors (AF) has criticized the statements made yesterday by the spokesperson for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, in a television program about how Moncloa is “guiding” the Public Ministry in the interpretation of the “only if it is” law yes’ and recalled that “the Prosecutor’s Office does not comply with government orders.”
The Executive Commission has issued a statement on Tuesday following the words of Rodríguez, who -in the framework of an interview on the reduction of sentences for those convicted of sexual crimes under the “only yes is yes” law- – assured that “the Government is guiding the interpretation of the norm through the instructions of the Prosecutor’s Office.”
Specifically, Rodríguez indicated that from the Executive they are “orienting” through the Prosecutor’s Office what is the “will” of the reform of the Penal Code promoted by the Ministry of Equality in the “direction that the legislator was pursuing.”
The AF has regretted the spokesperson’s comment and recalled that in 2019 the then acting President of the Executive Pedro Sánchez spoke in the same vein, when he said that the Prosecutor’s Office depended on the Government.
Thus, the association has ensured that “the sad reality is that four years later we find ourselves in the same situation.” In 2019, the majority association of prosecutors publicly censored Sánchez’s statements and expressed his discomfort after stressing that “the only dependency” of the Public Ministry is “the one that derives from legality.”
Now, in response to Rodríguez’s statements, the AF has insisted that “the Prosecutor’s Office does not comply with the Government’s orders” and has lamented “the lack of knowledge of the functions conferred on the Public Prosecutor” by the Executive. He has also stressed that such demonstrations “do not conform to reality and generate unacceptable confusion among the public.”
In this sense, the AF has assured that it will continue to “defend the impartiality of the Public Prosecutor’s Office against demonstrations or political actions that are ignorant of the legal reality of the Prosecutor’s Office” and that it will work to “reduce the discredit” produced in recent years in the Prosecutor’s Office .