Two of the prosecutors of the “trial”, Consuelo Madrigal and Javier Zaragoza, as well as the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Salvador Viada warned this Friday that “we are living one of the most worrying moments” of democracy due to the interference and “harassment” from the executive to the judiciary, a situation that is not helped by the image of lack of impartiality of the State Attorney General nor by the “omnimode” power that Álvaro García Ortiz assumed on the race. During his speech at a conference on the rule of law organized by the Independent Judicial Forum on Public Prosecution, the three first swords of the Supreme Court defended (with more or less determination) that García Ortiz should leave his functions if in the coming days he was accused of having revealed secrets (Viada and Zaragoza believe that they should have already done so) and all appealed to the respect and “dignity” of the institution: “He will not there is no better way to strengthen democracy than by preserving the independence of the judiciary; “It is unacceptable that the judiciary, which must control the other two powers, ends up depending on them,” Zaragoza said. Yes. The government aligns with the Attorney General to exclude Macías from appeals against constitutional amnesty. Nati VillanuevaIn his opinion, it is “essential that the Public Prosecutor’s Office does not suffer any interference or interference of any kind.” The Government cannot give instructions “neither general nor specific”, he clarified. And although the organic statute specifies that the prosecutor will act impartially, all governments have spoken of the attorney general as a kind of “armed arm”, which has ended up affecting society, which ends up considering the prosecutor as dependent on the prosecutor. However, the situation is now “more worrying”, he stressed, due to the controversies in which García Ortiz is involved on issues such as the appointment, the disqualification of magistrates of the Supreme Court or his possible accusation by the Second Chamber. This is shared by Salvador Viada, also a member of the Fiscal Council, who denounced the way in which the government penetrates the structure of the Public Ministry with absolutely harmful effects. “The whole institution is in danger,” he warned. Madrigal supported this opinion, also warning of the urgency of reform so that the public prosecutor’s office can act directly against political power or outside of it. “At the moment it’s absolutely impossible,” he said. The three prosecutors agreed that the appointment of the Attorney General should be separate from the government, not make it coincide with the mandate of the Executive and “of course” offer “absolute”. guarantees of impartiality”, which does not exist “when you go from the status of minister to that of attorney general”, declared Zaragoza. Viada has been very critical of the management of García Ortiz and of decisions such than “withdraw a case from the Attorney General.” when you do not agree with their criteria or their appointment policy (it is not in vain that their association, the APIF, took their “misuse of power” to the Supreme Court).
Supreme Court prosecutors: “It is unacceptable that the judiciary ends up being subordinated to the two other powers of the state”
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