“The Public Prosecutor’s Office has defended the presidency of the Spanish government. Time will put things in their place,” he said. Pedro Sanchez on July 31 of this year.
He did so after state defenders filed suit against the judge. Juan Carlos Peinado considering that he procrastinated by preventing the president from testifying in writing to his wife as part of the investigation, Begoña Gomezdue to an alleged conflict of interest.
Barely two weeks ago, on October 1, the government spokesperson, Pilar Alegriaaccused the judge in the case of “pedaling into nothing for six months.” He then spoke of an alleged conspiracy to overthrow Pedro Sánchez.
This Friday, the Civil and Criminal Chamber of The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has decided reject the prosecution’s complaint for processing.
The strength of the TSJ’s arguments leaves no other choice than to conclude that the one who has been pedaling in the dark for months while talking about right Against him is the president of the government, personally engaged in a battle against the judiciary which ended with an investigation of the attorney general and by the public prosecutor who saw how justice rejected the first complaint filed in a democracy against a judge in the name of the President of the Government.
The literal nature of the TSJ’s arguments attests to the exceptional nature of the situation. ““No one has the right to initiate and monitor criminal proceedings based on unfounded assumptions,” for example.
“It is imprudence with perverse effects to generate and fuel the suspicion that there are prevarications each time a resolution is in disagreement with the theses of a party,” said the TSJ then, citing the Supreme Court.
“The Chamber cannot help but reflect, given the speculative nature on which the complaint is based and the prejudice it reveals, that this is due solely to the attempt to misrepresent the lawful purpose implied by the type of crime with which the accused is charged.“.
“The use of the public prosecutor’s office to file a complaint like this is extravagant.”
One of the magistrates, Jesus Maria Santoseven proposes in his dissenting vote to fine Sánchez for procedural bad faith. “The president’s complaint is completely unfounded, speculative, and responds to prejudice and a false objective.”
Moncloa called the TSJ’s arguments “useless.” But the fact that the decision was adopted unanimously does not support with a minimum of plausibility the thesis according to which Judge Peinado engaged in persecution against the president’s wife, motivated by personal animosity. .
The rejection also has the side effect, although there is no legal connection, of strengthening the plausibility of the accusations against Begoña Gómez. and weaken the position before public opinion of the president and his wife.
If it were exceptional for the President of the Government to avail himself of a procedural privilege such as that of the public prosecutor’s office for the defense of a personal matter such as the investigation into his wifeEven more exceptional is the fact that she agreed to file a complaint without any legal basis.
We can only speculate about the reason that pushed the president to resort to another state institution, as has already happened with the prosecutor’s office, to defend his personal interests, and whether he did it blindly by fury, arrogance or by the feeling of impunity.
But the result couldn’t have been more counterproductive for him and his wife.
The personal crusade the president has undertaken against the media and the judiciary agrees with The economist, Bloomberg And The times when they speak of a regression of the democratic norms of Sánchez’s Spain.
And the filing of the public prosecutor’s complaint is one more step, particularly heavy, on Sánchez’s path towards a point of no return.
Neither Spain nor the Spanish people want the president to come to this.
