The president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, highlighted this Wednesday during the inauguration of the V International Congress of the Ibero-American Union of Universities and Supreme Courts the importance of judicial independence and the rule of law as indispensable elements of democracies: "The representatives of the other powers of the State are always obliged to rigorously publicly respect judicial resolutions."
The president of the court of guarantees has indicated "that only through this internal respect and the principle of non-interference, judicial independence can be guaranteed in any system." During his speech, the magistrate expressed his concern about judicial independence, both within Spain and internationally: "Our Constitution perfectly reflects this concern to safeguard judicial independence, and forces us to remember that the latter is proclaimed as a principle necessary for the proper functioning of the Judiciary."
The president of the Constitutional Court makes these statements when all eyes are on the court of guarantees and the validation of a hypothetical amnesty law.
Although the granting of an amnesty is a political decision, the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is pursuing double legitimation, through Congress and the Constitutional Court, which could relieve him of responsibilities in the face of a door that, yes, already seems open. wide open, as EL MUNDO reported this Wednesday. Sánchez hopes that when the case arises he will be able to endorse his decision in the guarantee court.
«Although the conversations have to be discreet, the agreements will be transparent and known. They have to be endorsed by the legislative branch. "Even the Constitutional Court will have to rule," were the words of the PSOE leader after being designated a candidate for the investiture by the King.
On the other hand, Jaume Asens, the member of the Commons who acts as a liaison between the Executive and Carles Puigdemont, has pointed out in recent hours that "it is not about making an amnesty that each of us likes, but rather that it passes the filter of the Constitutional Court".
Asens has assumed that, if the amnesty law had been approved in the previous mandate, based on the resolution presented in Congress by Junts and ERC, "the Constitutional Court, with a right-wing majority, would have overturned it." "And I think that now that will not happen," Asens insisted to increase pressure on Pumpido, who was already questioned on Tuesday by Sánchez when the acting president stated that "even the Constitutional Court will have to rule" on the amnesty.
