He Government of Extremadura presented in the Constitutional Court This Tuesday an appeal against the Law amnesty approved by Congress. The Community of Madrid, Andalusia, Aragon, Valencian Community and Castilla La Mancha have already presented five other appeals this Monday, considering that it violates the principle of separation of powers and violates the right to equality of citizens before the law.
Maria Guardiola, The president of Extremadura gave the green light to the appeal this Tuesday. The leader popular Extremadura announced the authorization at the meeting of its Government Council, which already announced at the end of July that it would take this path. The trial was registered by the Attorney General’s Office. Autonomous Community of Extremadura.
Victoria Bazaga, spokesman for the government of Extremadura, assured that the Amnesty Law violates the principle of separation of powers. “This ignores the exclusive attribution to the courts of the exercise of jurisdictional power in all types of processes,” he said. Bazaga At the press conference after the meeting of the Government Council. The spokesman for Extremadura stressed that, in addition, said law supposes “a privileged treatment of some Spaniards over others”, since it establishes “without foundation” that for the same illicit acts “some Spaniards must respond and others will be exempt from any civil liability”. .criminal and accounting.
Bazaga explained that the Extremadura government advocates for “equal treatment of citizens, regardless of the territory in which they reside,” because “no citizen is superior to another because he was born in a certain community.” “He Government of Extremadura “This will not allow differences to arise that undermine social and territorial cohesion,” said the spokesperson for the Executive.
The appeal filed by the Extremadura government to the amnesty law comes just one day after the one presented by the leaders of five other autonomies. The controversial law has received a cascade of appeals of unconstitutionality from the Community of Madrid, Aragon, the Valencian Community and Andalusia, governed by the Popular Party, which has been joined by Castilla La-Mancha, where the socialist Emiliano García-Page governs.
Furthermore, in some of the appeals presented to the Court of Guarantees, as is the case of Madrid and Andalusia, a request for contestation has been included Candido Conde-Pumpido, president of Constitutional Court. Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, also indicated that the appeal presented by her executive would include a request for the recusal of two other magistrates, Juan Carlos Campo, former Minister of Justice, and Laura Diez, former Director General of Constitutional Affairs and Legal Coordination of Moncloa.
