The eight conservative members of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) take into account Thursday’s assertion by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, on the European Council work session in Brussels, “irresponsible”, during which he acknowledged that “the political proper and judiciary have wished to run over democracy”.
In an institutional assertion, they’ve criticized that these statements got here after these made by parliamentary spokespersons, during which “gross insults have been poured out on the Constitutional Court and the Judiciary.”
The signatories take into account it “irresponsible to make these sorts of assertions, devoid of any basis and much more in order it entails shifting from partisan confrontation to the delegitimization of the establishments earlier than the citizenry.”
The members be sure that each the Constitutional Court and the peculiar courts of justice “have contributed decisively to the consolidation of democracy, complying with and implementing the Constitution.”
They additionally recall that the European Commission requires that, as a way to respect the rule of legislation, members of the governments and parliaments of the EU States should “abstain from actions and public statements that might undermine the legitimacy of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, peculiar courts, judges, individually or collectively, or the judiciary as a complete”.
In this sense, they’ve known as for “a coexistence ruled by the values of concord, freedom and authorized certainty, compliance with which is particularly required of all of us who perform public duties”.
Thus, they’ve recalled that “the rule of legislation is the cornerstone of a democratic society, the place the three powers and all residents are topic to the rule of the Constitution, beneath whose shelter free and peaceable coexistence is assured, in circumstances of equality “.
For this cause, they’ve ensured that “compliance with the constitutional order and guaranteeing the rights of residents is the elemental function that judges fulfill, no matter their specific concepts or opinions.”
The textual content is signed by the members Carmen Llombart Pérez, José Antonio Ballestero Pascual, Francisco Gerardo Martínez Tristán, Juan Manuel Fernández Martínez, Juan Martínez Moya, José María Macías Castaño, Nuria Díaz Abad and María Ángeles Carmona Vergara.