The Venice Commission report on the amnesty in Spain mentions Counting Stars among its sources

@ElentirENG ES 3·20·2024 · 18:11 0

This Monday, March 18, the final report of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on the amnesty in Spain was published.

Counting Stars and credibility
The Venice Commission draft on the amnesty in Spain and what it really says

A reader has alerted me that the document links this blog among its sources. Specifically, the link to Counting Stars appears on page 7, in note 11, as support for a reference to the institutions that have issued statements criticizing the amnesty law. The linked post belongs to the English edition of the blog. It was published on November 11 and I was updating it daily for 15 days, as more statements from different institutions became known.

That post had enormous dissemination: the Spanish edition has received almost 150,000 visits, being the article with the most audience of those published on this site in recent months. It contains links to the statements from the different entities rejecting the amnesty, information that the Venice Commission has valued, incorporating it into the sources of its report, which has been harsher than the provisional draft leaked by the government a few weeks ago, about whose content Pedro Sánchez's executive has lied repeatedly, stating that he supported his controversial law, something that is flatly false.

I am glad that all the work that went into compiling the information published in that entry (in Spanish and English) has been useful to denounce, both inside and outside of Spain, the attack by the socialist government from Pedro Sánchez to the Rule of Law, with a project that violates the right to equality before the law and attacks judicial independence, and which has had an unprecedented rejection both in the streets, with massive protests , as well as by institutions, including 11 regional governments, 26 judicial entities (including the Supreme Court, the 17 Superior Courts of Justice and the 4 largest associations of judges), all prosecutors' associations, 51 entities of lawyers, court secretaries and attorneys, 559 notaries, 28 state officials associations and 39 business, professional and commercial entities.