Hazte Oír announced a few days ago that it would take to the European Union and the main international bodies the latest and most serious attack by Pedro Sánchez against judicial independence. “What we saw in his TVE intervention was not an interview; it was a propaganda spectacle in which the president of the Government dared to directly point to the judges who investigate corruption in his closest family and political circle,” the association asserts.
For Hazte Oír, “Pedro Sánchez no longer hides his strategy: to discredit and intimidate the magistrates who fulfill their duty. What a coincidence. They are the same judges who investigate his wife, his brother, and his closest circle. His attack is not only a lack of respect; it is a challenge to the separation of powers that sustains our democracy. All this taking place this coming Friday, the opening ceremony of the Judicial Year at the Supreme Court with its two political commissars, Félix Bolaños and Álvaro Ortiz.”
The assessment by the association of that interview is that “the president appeared nervous, insecure and cornered. Unable to respond with facts, he resorted to the only thing he has left, fabricating an empty narrative. He repeats like a mantra that ‘there is nothing’, but that phrase no longer deceives anyone. Each evasion was the confession of a president who knows that Justice is approaching.”
There is a revelatory phrase in Hazte Oír’s view during the interview, when “Sánchez admitted knowing what his relatives were doing at minute 21:28 of the interview. ‘I know how they live, I know what they have done,’ a statement of enormous gravity that shows that he cannot feign ignorance nor disown the ongoing judicial investigations. Hazte Oír notes this confession not only for legal responsibility but also for political responsibility.”
From the association they believe that “with his words, Pedro Sánchez has crossed another red line. Attacking judges is attacking judicial independence and with it all, yes, all Spaniards. Pointing from power at independent magistrates is typical of Bolivarian regimes – let us not discount that he may have received advice – and constitutes an unacceptable attempt to subject justice to political control. Conclusion: we must never stand still. Hazte Oír will not stay silent. In the face of this intolerable aggression against the judiciary, it announces that it will file a formal complaint with the European Union and the main international bodies defending the rule of law.”
And they conclude that “Spain does not deserve a president who acts like an autocrat nor a judiciary intimidated by political power. Hazte Oír will remain at the forefront, defending judicial independence and denouncing every attempt by Pedro Sánchez to undermine it.”
