The president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Vicente Guilarte, declined this Monday to delve deeper into the possible preparation and promulgation of an amnesty law in Spain, and limited himself to stating: "It is very difficult to agree with it." ".
It was at the University of Valladolid (UVa), before giving the master class that welcomed the students to the Faculty of Law for the 2023/2024 academic year, where this year he will retire as professor of Civil Law after 45 years and began his studies in 1970.
As president of the CGPJ, since last July, Guilarte, when asked by journalists, has considered it "premature" to issue an assessment on a possible amnesty law for politicians convicted for the independence process in Catalonia, among them those who with their votes can be decisive in the presidential inauguration of Pedro Sánchez (PSOE).
"It will take time to comment on these issues and wait to see how it develops before giving an opinion. It is premature, it is not the time, now we are at the University," he explained to informants before adding: "It is very difficult to agree with it".
Guilarte has been more explicit on the same matter as a professor of Civil Law, already within the master class that he gave to a student body whom he warned against "legal illusionists", an expression that he extracted and quoted from the book One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.
"The Law, in the hands of the unscrupulous, is a dangerous instrument. The illusionists of the Law have appeared again to convince us of the goodness of the amnesty, something that the most prudent thing is to question," he reflected as a university professor.
He reminded the students that the law "is a powerful instrument" and that "used incorrectly" can be "enormously harmful", which is why he appealed to the history of law: "The important thing is to know what legal institutions are for, understand its rationality" fruit of a sedimentation process of many years.
Guilarte has issued both warnings after acknowledging that he does not like to command and that he is not the one "to give advice that will improve my silence", despite which he has conveyed the feeling that the field of Law shows a certain absence in these times. deontological and that it is a "especially competitive" world.
"Sending is a vice that I do not have and who knows how I will get out of this new adventure", he has alluded to his responsibility as president of the CGPJ, assumed since last July, and warned that "while he can" he will not abandon "neither my University nor this city".
In the year of his academic retirement, looking back he has remembered his beginnings as a student in 1970 with teachers of the caliber of José Antonio Rubio Sacristán, Alfonso Guilarte and Pablo Pinedo, which he has evoked through educational anecdotes in just half an hour.
"My mission is to teach, not to suspend. The clumsy ones will have their lives suspended. I think I have been academically loyal," he summarized before apologizing to the Civil Law department, to which he belongs, for having abruptly altered the plan. of academic organization after having accepted this "tasks that I have to perform in the Villa and Court."
Among them is the renewal of the members, paralyzed for several years and expected to be delayed until 2025: "We will have to find the formula without stepping on anyone's toes," he declared to journalists, as president of the CGPJ, before delivering his lesson. academic as a professor before, among others, the rector of the UVa, Antonio Largo.
