The president of the General Council of the Judiciary, Isabel Perelló, has demanded the end of criticism of the judges in her speech of the opening of the judicial year, before the King and the Minister of Justice. “The trust and credibility in justice are a good common that must be preserved,” said a few days after Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government, said on television that some judges in Spain “do politics.” “The judges do not obey orders or instructions from anyone, now, independence does not equals free arbitration,” he added.
“That we are not pressed, that we are not conditioned, that the credibility of the courts with political opportunity or any other types of any other,” has not said about judicial independence. “Only a court can declare a judge's mistake,” he added.
“The insistent disqualifications to justice from public authorities are totally inopportune and rejection. “The disagreement and criticism are acceptable, but it is not to discredit the Judiciary, attributing intentions or objectives that are openly contrary to the principles that should preside over the jurisdictional action,” he said.
“Each public office is responsible for their actions,” he added to end a petition: “Society does not deserve public powers to enter disqualifications or mutual reproaches.”
The words of the president of the Judiciary before the dome of the Spanish courts arrive shortly after the interview in TVE in which Pedro Sánchez charged, among others, against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado and the investigation he has run for more than a year against his wife at the request of several accusations of extreme right. “There are judges doing politics and do immense damage to justice,” he said.
Also shortly after the Supreme Criminal Chamber, Court that also presides over, has confirmed the prosecution of the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, for the filtration of an email of the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The Popular Party, its president Alberto Núñez Feijóo and its institutional positions have rejected to go to the event for the first time. Neither the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, nor the mayor of the city of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who have chosen to go to an act of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Perelló, veteran progressive magistrate of the Contentious Chamber of the Supreme Court before being appointed president of the Government Body of the Judges, already made allusions to the need for other public powers to respect the Judiciary. He appealed then to “the need to avoid unjustified attacks, which may undermine the legitimacy and reputation of the administration of justice or its members.”
