The silence of the CGPJ in the face of the government's attacks on the Supreme Court

Today marks one week since the Supreme Court announced the conviction of the Attorney General.

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Álvaro García Ortiz has achieved something unprecedented: the first time a State Attorney General has been convicted of a crime, specifically for revealing secrets as part of a government campaign against a political rival. The Supreme Court's ruling demonstrates that the law applies to everyone, including the powerful. In this sense, the court has restored hope in our rule of law for many Spaniards.

That ruling has received an intolerable response in a democracy. The government, its allies, and all its affiliated media have spent a week launching serious slanders against the Supreme Court, even accusing them of staging a "coup," using even a public broadcaster, RTVE, paid for by all taxpayers but which acts as a propaganda arm for the socialists. What the left is doing in Spain is a serious attack against judicial independence and a clear violation of the right to honor of the judges who are part of that court, they are even using the press conferences of the Council of Ministers to make these attacks.

Faced with these attacks, which demonstrate once again that Spain has a left wing that does not accept democratic norms (because these norms apply to everyone, and include court rulings issued by the courts), the silence of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the highest governing body of judges in Spain, is especially astonishing. In a week, it has not issued even the slightest complaint against the worst smear campaign the judiciary has suffered in decades, a campaign encouraged by Pedro Sánchez's own government.

The CGPJ website states the following: "The General Council of the Judiciary is a constitutional, collegiate, autonomous body, composed of judges and other legal professionals, which exercises the functions of governing the Judiciary with the aim of guaranteeing the independence of judges in the exercise of their judicial function against all others."

For a week now, we have witnessed an attempt to delegitimize a court for issuing a ruling that the government dislikes, simply because that ruling has exposed a despicable political operation in which the Attorney General played a prominent role. And in the face of this, the General Council of the Judiciary remains silent, as if this serious attack on the justice system did not affect it, as if it were not its problem.

I don't know how this will end, but when a government attacks judicial independence as the Sánchez government is doing, resorting to all its means to try to delegitimize and intimidate judges and magistrates, what it is actually doing is attacking democracy, specifically one of its pillars, which is the separation of powers. No democrat should be complicit in something like this, either actively (by participating in this campaign of harassment against the judiciary) or passively (by remaining silent about it).

The CGPJ must react now to this anti-democratic offensive, and if it fails to do so, it will be betraying its duty and leaving other judges and magistrates vulnerable, because what we are witnessing is not only an attack on judges for issuing a ruling that displeases the government, but also an attempt to intimidate all judges in Spain so that they dare not challenge the left. That is what truly resembles an attack on democracy, and not the mere act of convicting the guilty party, whoever they may be.

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Photo: Consejo General del Poder Judicial.