An indigestible front page for the judiciary

BarcelonaSometimes information aligns in a way that creates front pages that concentrate the contradictions and complexities of a country. It is somewhat what happened to El País this Friday. The main headline is about the Supreme Court's decision to temporarily suspend the so-called grandchildren law, which grants the right to vote and nationality to the descendants of the republican exile: "The Supreme Court gives wings to Vox's theory of electoral fraud". The information is so relevant that the newspaper considered it necessary to also include the editorial on the front page, with a headline that leaves no room for doubt: "Legal absurdity".

And now comes the fun part. The central photo on the front page is occupied by the opening of the judicial year, in which the president of the CGPJ, Isabel Perelló, is seen speaking, and King Felipe VI and the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, with serious faces behind her. The headline is: "The president of the Judiciary criticizes the attribution of 'political purposes' to judges". In other words, on the day that the Judiciary asks that there be no distrust of justice, the main Spanish court of justice, the Supreme Court, aligns itself with the far right with a decision that, in addition to being a legal blunder, is clearly political.

And this is precisely what the newspaper's editorial says, which states bluntly that, by assuming the theories of electoral fraud, "the judges are adopting arguments taken from the Trumpist manual". "Neither the political right, nor even less the magistrates of the high court, should participate in this conspiracy theory that attacks the most sacred thing in democracy: the right to vote", it concludes. In case it had not been made clear in a multitude of cases (Attorney General, Judge Peinado, the Procés, etc.), there is a very relevant part of Spanish society, the left and various sovereignists, that no longer believes in the impartiality of justice.