SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, January 19. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Popular Party (PP), Cuca Gamarra, has “blatantly” demanded this Friday from the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, that they disavow the third vice president and Minister for the Transition Ecological and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who has criticized the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón for insisting on the terrorist thesis in the ‘Democratic Tsunami’ case and at a “sensitive” political moment.
In statements to journalists before speaking at a meeting of the management committee of the Canarian PP, he charged against Ribera for the “very serious” accusations “of prevaricating, that is, of not being impartial”, a speech that was typical of the “independence supporters”. ” and that now “assumes” the Government and is part of the “payment” for remaining in power.
Along these lines, he has pointed out that judges in Spain “do not prevaricate but rather exercise their jurisdiction” within the framework of the rule of law and therefore, “the only thing they do is apply the laws.”
Gamarra has insisted that “a party is not speaking, the Government is speaking and the person who is assuming that in Spain the judges prevaricate is the Government of Spain itself”, stressing that if Ribera is not disavowed, “they themselves are the ones who, with their silence “They are assuming that in Spain there is ‘lawfare’, that in Spain the judges prevaricate, and that is not the case.”
He pointed out that Spain “is a full democracy where the judiciary is independent and impartial”, both when they “like” its resolutions and when they don’t.
“Judge García Castellón, who has been named today, has known and judged different procedures. Many of them have affected politicians from the Popular Party. We defend his independence and impartiality when these procedures have had to do with the Popular Party. or when they have nothing to do with it because these are the rules of democracy and the Popular Party does believe in the independence of the judiciary and we also believe in its impartiality,” he commented.
Regarding the approval of amendments to the amnesty law, he has pointed out that what he seeks is “to pay the price of impunity to a political caste in exchange for the votes so that Pedro Sánchez remains in the Government of Spain.”
In that sense, he has asked “how the latest report from Congressional lawyers does not matter” in relation to unconstitutionality even if it is “forceful and devastating”, and only “as long as we comply with the partners and give them impunity.”
He has also said that Sánchez “nothing is put ahead of him in what has to do with respect and defense of the rule of law” because it is “the price” to remain in power, “the price of erasing the sentences that have been dictated by the judges, but it is also the price of the judges not being able to act in those proceedings that are still pending.
