In a cascade operation, the various autonomous governments of the PP announced on Monday one after the other the registration of their respective appeals of unconstitutionality against the amnesty law. The Popular Party thus intensifies its judicial offensive against the pardon measure granted to people prosecuted by the process communities where they hold power, and after national leaders recorded their own call on Thursday, coinciding with the opening of the judicial year, and marking the step for the barons, who waited for Génova to make his decision official so as not to get ahead of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The Community of Madrid, Aragon, the Region of Murcia, Andalusia and Cantabria confirmed that they had presented the documents before the Court of Guarantees, two days before the deadline expired, next Wednesday. The Executive of the Valencian Community will also approve their respective appeal, in the afternoon, at a plenary session of the Consell. And that of Extremadura will do the same this Tuesday, say sources from the presidential office, María Guardiola. The PP barons were joined by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist Emiliano García-Page, whose government also filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court today.
The officialization of the means was materialized this Monday. But the PP barons had already announced a few months ago that their frontal opposition to the amnesty law would take them to the Constitutional Court, even if the national leadership and some presidents of the Popular Party have shown their distrust of the resolutions of the Guarantee Court. The impetus was given early this morning by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the first leader to announce the filing of the brief. “We are doing it to defend the equality of all Spaniards,” said the Madrid president during an informative breakfast organized by Nueva Economía Fórum. “[La ley de amnistía] “This is absolutely unconstitutional. This is another step in the destruction of the rule of law. And now how can we repair so much damage?” he added.
The President of the Community also announced that the appeal includes the recusal of three magistrates of the Constitutional Court for his “notorious ideological link with the PSOE”. He is the president of the court and former attorney general of the state, Candido Count Pumpido; by Laura Díez, former senior official of La Moncloa; and Juan Carlos Campoformer Minister of Justice, who has already asked to abstain from the debate, which will be admitted to the plenary session of the institution this Tuesday. All of them were also challenged in the appeal filed last Thursday by the PP.
In Zaragoza, Vice President Mar Vaquero welcomed an appeal filed “in defense of these principles of freedom and equality for all Aragonese people.” The text presented by the government led by Jorge Azcón states that there is “a total failure of the rule of law, enshrined in Article 1 of the Constitution, due to the violation of the superior value of justice and the principle of separation of powers, so that political power is excluded from judicial control,” among other considerations.
“A shameful and unconstitutional law that violates the separation of powers, which allows crimes to be committed depending on where you live,” said Murcian President Fernando López Miras in an interview with Cope. The leader also referred to the round of regional presidents in La Moncloa proposed by Pedro Sánchez. Regarding this invitation, López Miras criticized the fact that in the last five years, “the man has not found a place to meet him” and “admitted that he “hopes” that the general director will “summon” him to the meeting.
The head of the Consell, Carlos Mazón, speaking to the media in Alicante, indicated that the government he presides over, “with all the consequences, seeking equality before the law and before justice equally for all Spaniards” will also register your resource. Mazón already announced on May 30, during a control session in the Corts, that the Valencian Executive had already prepared the appeal, the same day that the plenary session of the Congress supported the amnesty law by an absolute majority, thus lifting the veto of the Senate and giving the definitive green light to its approval, reports Ferran Bono.
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Meanwhile, the President of the Council of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno, made his appeal known during the inauguration of the new judicial headquarters in the Cordoba municipality of Lucena. “Today we are going to present the appeal of unconstitutionality against the amnesty law because our legal department understands that it is an attack on a fundamental right that Andalusia cannot, must not and does not want to look the other way,” said the Andalusian leader, reports Eva Saiz.
Regarding the socialist government of Castilla-La Mancha, it was the spokesperson of the Executive, Esther Padilla, who informed the media that the García-Page government, very critical since the beginning of the amnesty for those accused of the processpresented the appeal electronically this Monday morning with a report “very energetic regarding the legitimacy of the Autonomous Community to be able to present this appeal of unconstitutionality.” “It is an unconstitutional law because it breaks the principle of equality between citizens,” Padilla stressed in Villarrubia de Santiago (Toledo).
For some time now, both the PP leadership and some popular barons have been encouraging doubts about the independence of the Constitutional Court. And this Monday was no exception. “It is not a question of trusting or not. [en el tribunal]”It's about doing the right thing, the decision they make doesn't depend on me,” Diaz Ayuso said in Madrid. And he concluded: “We have lost confidence [en el TC] taking into account that many of its members are active militants, coming directly from the PSOE or the government. We are doing what is necessary. If this [la ley de amnistía] It's wrong, if it's an outrage, a change to the Constitution, we have to do the right thing. If someone does something wrong, let it be others.”
During her speech at the informative breakfast, the president of the Community once again provoked the confrontation between her government and La Moncloa and its representatives, which was attended by the delegate of the Central Executive, Francisco Martín, seated at the table of the authorities, surrounded by the senior executives of the regional PP. “I ask for respect for the autonomous communities that did not vote for socialism and interventionism,” Ayuso said. “The absolute majority of Madrilenians voted for a series of policies that the government will not respect, because it does not listen to and does not respect the will of the citizens. In Madrid, we voted for freedom,” he insisted. “They want us to be increasingly disunited, without anything to occupy or worry us,” he stressed. And he added: “The time has come for the inversion of the truth, for merciless attacks. You will find us here.”
Begoña Gómez “cannot come out unscathed”
In this line of confrontation, the Madrid president criticized the government for considering the arrival in Spain of the Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González after requesting political asylum as “a triumph”, while he has remained “silent all this time”. In this context, Díaz Ayuso wondered why the left in Spain “has been so silent these weeks” until González requested asylum at the embassy and was later transferred to Madrid. “Why have they remained silent all this time and since yesterday they consider this a triumph? What triumph?”, he expressed, while criticizing the Executive for “not having been interested in the situation in Venezuela all this time, neither in the demonstrations nor in the public statements”.
The Madrid leader criticized the fact that the Sánchez government was not “able to recognize the victory” of the opposition candidate, while former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero “did not hesitate to go there to support the dictatorship.” Nor does he understand why the Executive does not do so “after these fundamental weeks in which there have been so many arrests, deaths, persecutions that will not stop.” “What doubts remain about what to do with the tyrant?” “What doubts remain?” he said. And he concluded: “This is the weakest moment for the dictator.” [en referencia a Nicolás Maduro]”.
In addition, Ayuso filed a complaint against Begoña Gómez, the wife of President Pedro Sánchez.Unharmed, she cannot leave“, she said about the case in which she is being investigated for the alleged commission of crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business for her work at the Complutense University.
In this sense, the Madrid PP will promote a commission of inquiry in the Regional Assembly in October to focus on the relationship between Gómez and this educational institution, which hosts two masters co-directed by the wife of the leader of the socialists. Although the object of the initiative does not mention Sánchez's wife or the rector Joaquín Goyache, the conservatives want to focus on this manager and “clarify” whether the professional received favorable treatment from her when she was appointed to direct the extraordinary chair in one of the studies he co-directed.
At the end of August, the Office of the Attorney General of the State, on behalf of the President of the Government, presented a document before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Madrid, in which it requests the extension of the complaint for judicial judgment. procrastination filed in late July against the magistrate in charge of investigating the case. The law firm argues that Peinado is practicing an “intrinsic injustice” and “contravening existing doctrine,” resulting in “the violation of the duty that corresponds to the judge in the exercise of his powers,” according to the document.
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