{"id":55228,"date":"2024-03-20T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55228"},"modified":"2025-03-20T00:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T23:47:05","slug":"the-venice-commission-report-on-the-amnesty-in-spain-mentions-counting-stars-among-its-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/20\/the-venice-commission-report-on-the-amnesty-in-spain-mentions-counting-stars-among-its-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venice Commission report on the amnesty in Spain mentions Counting Stars among its sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, March 18, the final report of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on the amnesty in Spain was published.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/01\/counting-stars-and-credibility\/\">Counting Stars and credibility<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/02\/the-venice-commission-draft-on-the-amnesty-in-spain-and-what-it-really-says\/\">The Venice Commission draft on the amnesty in Spain and what it really says<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>A reader has alerted me that the document links this blog among its sources. Specifically, <strong>the link to Counting Stars appears on page 7, in note 11<\/strong>, as support for a reference to the institutions that have issued statements criticizing the amnesty law. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/11\/spain-the-list-of-the-institutions-that-reject-the-socialist-attack-against-the-rule-of-law\/\">The linked post belongs to the English edition of the blog<\/a>. It was published on November 11 and I was updating it daily for 15 days, as more statements from different institutions became known.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That post had enormous dissemination:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/11\/la-lista-de-las-instituciones-que-rechazan-el-ataque-socialista-al-estado-de-derecho\/\">the Spanish edition has received almost 150,000 visits<\/a>, 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, <strong>information that the Venice Commission has valued<\/strong>, incorporating it into the sources of its report, which has been harsher than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/02\/the-venice-commission-draft-on-the-amnesty-in-spain-and-what-it-really-says\/\">the provisional draft leaked by the government a few weeks ago<\/a>, about whose content Pedro S\u00e1nchez's executive has lied repeatedly, stating that he supported his controversial law, something that is flatly false.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad that <strong>all the work that went into compiling the information published in that entry<\/strong> (in Spanish and English) has been useful to denounce, both inside and outside of Spain, the attack by the socialist government from Pedro S\u00e1nchez to the Rule of Law, with <strong>a project that violates the right to equality before the law and attacks judicial independence, and which has had an unprecedented rejection<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, March 18, the final report of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on the amnesty in Spain was published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10689],"tags":[15637,21268],"class_list":["post-55228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-logbook","tag-council-of-europe","tag-venice-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}