State lawyers denounce that the PSOE pact with Junts represents "a direct attack on justice and equality"

A hundred State lawyers have signed a very critical agreement with the agreement reached this Thursday between the Socialist Party and Junts for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. In the text, the members of the State's legal service “flatly reject the investiture agreements, which represent a direct attack on freedom, justice and equality, with a manifest bankruptcy of our rule of law.”. “We reiterate our unwavering loyalty to the Constitution and, therefore, to all Spaniards, against those who, due to their status as public representatives, should guarantee it and, however, have agreed to breach it,” they highlight.

The State lawyers claim their “full conviction that democracy in Spain has its only foundation in absolute respect for our Constitution, guarantor of almost half a century of political stability and the safeguarding of fundamental rights and public liberties of all.” the Spanish” and warn that the agreement between Sánchez and the fugitive Carles Puigdemont represents “the bankruptcy of our rule of law.”

“We categorically reject the granting of amnesty to people convicted with the maximum procedural and legal guarantees, after an impeccable investigation and prosecution. We also reject the agreement for the constitution of parliamentary investigation commissions that represent an unacceptable attack on the independence of the Judiciary and an interference contrary to the principle of separation of powers, and that seek indefinite extensions of the subjective scope of the planned Amnesty Law “, they emphasize.

On the other hand, the members of the State Bar show their rejection of “the holding of a referendum on the self-determination of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, which clashes head-on with the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation, common and indivisible homeland of all Spaniards, as article 2 of our Constitution proclaims”.

Likewise, a hundred State lawyers are directly opposed to “the forgiveness of 15,000 million euros of the debt that the Autonomous Community of Catalonia maintains with the State” since “it does not respond to the general interest of our nation, but rather to particular interests.” , and that goes against the necessary interterritorial solidarity and the equality of all Spaniards that the Magna Carta guarantees.”

Finally, the statement highlights the “unconditional support” of the signatories “to all public servants who, with loyalty and honesty, defended our Rule of Law in the face of the unacceptable aggression of the separatist parties in 2017.”

“The weakening of institutions”

On the other hand, the State Bar Association issued another statement this Friday expressing its “deep concern about the breakdown of the separation of powers and the principle of equality between all Spaniards.”. “The weakening of the democratic institutions of the State represents an unacceptable delegitimization of them that this Association cannot share,” adds this group.

Furthermore, the State's lawyers recall that they “defended the rule of law and constitutional legality in the State's reaction to the serious events that occurred in Catalonia in 2017.”

This association also rejects any allusion to the lawfare concept, “understood as an alternative use of the law, unrelated to the substantive and procedural rules that are applicable in each case.”