Who the Prosecutor's Office reports to and other achievements

The division of powers in Spain is defined by some landmark rulings, such as "Who does the Prosecutor's Office depend on?", pronounced by Pedro Sánchez when he wanted to guarantee that he would bring Puigdemont, arrested, to Spain, or those of PP Senator Cosidó: "We will control the second chamber of the Supreme Court through the back door" and "It has been a stupid move to make hundreds of appointments in the judiciary, vital for the PP and for the future of Spain."

So, when it comes to the independence of the judiciary from the executive branch and the two largest Spanish parties, we've long been at the forefront. Everyone is trying to cover their heads, lest something happen to them or what might be discovered about them, their party, or their family. That's why the PSOE and PP governments are now battling over who will be the interlocutor in the case of the Attorney General. And when the Constitutional Court's favorable ruling on the amnesty law arrives at the end of the month, we'll hear a ton of information that it was made possible thanks to the progressive majority and that with a conservative majority, the law wouldn't have made it through.

One of the significant consequences of this predictability and this increasingly less subterranean game, which leads us to conclude that in politically sensitive cases the verdict will depend on the judge's political affiliation, is the lack of public confidence in judicial independence, which is the typical widespread malaise ("They're all the same," "There's not a single inch of purity"). And in times like the present, when the government is hanging on by the skin of its teeth and the opposition is dragging its feet, the political colonization of the judiciary will continue to be scandalous.