The acting Secretary of State for Justice, Tontxu Rodríguez, accused Judge Manuel García Castellón this Wednesday of “influencing” the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez by pointing out the Catalan leaders Carles Puigdemont and Marta Rovira in the case over the Tsunami Democràtic movement at a key moment in the talks.
“I have no idea if he has a reason or not, but what a coincidence it has to be on this day, hey. Look, it could have been a year and a half before or a year and a half after, well no. It has to be right in the middle of the negotiations. If that is not influencing, may God come and see...”, he commented in an interview given this Wednesday to Radio Popular-Herri Irratia.
The Secretary of State for Justice has also commented on the declaration approved by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), with a conservative majority, against a future amnesty law, calling it a measure "of abolition of the rule of law", which "violates the Constitution” and “turns justice into a chimera.”
Rodríguez has criticized that the governing body of the judges takes a position on a law that they do not know, even more so in the case of “some gentlemen and ladies whose mandate expired five years ago” and who, in his opinion, are “true squatters.” that, for “institutional dignity”, “they should have left” five years ago.
Precisely from this agreement, the interim president of the CGPJ, Vicente Guilarte, has distanced himself, who on Wednesday explained that last Monday he voted blank because he considers that the position adopted by the majority “in favor of a certain political option” is “premature.” since there is still no known text about the future law.
Rodríguez has also attacked the Professional Association of the Judiciary (APM), conservative and majority in the judicial career, which assured that the amnesty law for the procès is “the beginning of the end of our democracy.” “I believe that they are developing a political responsibility that does not correspond to them at all, on a law that they do not know, that does not exist,” said the Secretary of State, who has wondered where the “impartiality” of these judges is.
He has also criticized the PP's strategy in the Senate, where it enjoys an absolute majority, to delay the processing of the amnesty law as much as possible through a proposal to reform the Regulations of that Chamber. “It is all a regrettable political and institutional irresponsibility for a party that at a certain moment will govern again, I hope very late,” he said.
