One of the most shocking aspects of the latest CIS survey is that the judiciary is the second-highest-rated Spanish institution, and that all the suspicions about its lack of neutrality are concentrated on its actions regarding political parties. We learned this precisely the same week that the Supreme Court denied, first, amnesty to Carles Puigdemont, delusionally claiming that he obtained a "personal benefit of a financial nature" from the trial, and that this fits in a very twisted way within the disgraceful and avoidable exception provided for by the amnesty law. Second, the same high court has ruled against a pardon for Oriol Junqueras, which could exonerate him from his disqualification from office because, in the opinion of such learned judges, and contrary to the opinion of the Prosecutor's Office, that would be tantamount to replacing the partial and irrevocable pardon granted for another prison sentence for his 1870 prison term.
In short, Marchena, Llarena and company no longer know what to investigate to justify their rabid rebellion against any measure of clemency for those convicted under the October 1st Act. With its usual arrogance, the majority of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court has once again banished its obligation to judge and enforce judgment and has preferred to continue acting as a subversive and anti-system agent, invading not only the spaces characteristic of and reserved for militant political activism, but also exercising its function of openly falsifying the postulates of legal democracy based on the law, that is, on respect for the will emanating from the democratic legislator.
The politicization of justice in Spain is unbearable. The judicial system is full of judges who act as if they were the adjudicators of political conflicts, without any shame. It is not their responsibility to resolve any of the political or moral problems affecting our society. This would be tantamount to giving them absolute and discretionary power over our lives. In the face of political impulses.
This paradigm of the intolerant and exclusionary Spanish judge-politician, wounded in his patriotic pride, who feverishly supports the thesis that October 1st was a coup d'état, contrasts sharply, by the way, with the blatant inaction of the judicial system as a whole when it comes to pursuing those responsible and in charge, intelligence services, corrupt police officers... As we know from all the evidence available at this point, including audio recordings and handwritten notes, there were those who spent years fabricating false reports that they then leaked to sympathetic media outlets to tarnish the reputation of honest Catalan politicians and businessmen. But of course, they were supporters of Catalan independence.
The fact that there is currently a commission of inquiry in the Congress of Deputies exclusively examining political responsibilities, let us not forget, cannot mask the painful fact that neither the Prosecutor's Office nor any judge has even lifted a finger (!) to find out who mounted such a crude operation to eliminate political rivals. And this has only one possible explanation: a considerable portion of the Spanish justice system is stiflingly influenced by the pro-Spanish political right and fanaticized by a certain narrow-minded conception of Spain, which apparently gives them a patent of their hearts for failing to apply the law impartially.
