"The action of the courts is not an obstacle to coexistence". This phrase pronounced yesterday by the president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Lesmes, was aimed especially at Pedro Sánchez and his decision to pardon the Catalan political prisoners, which was justified by the Ministry of Justice in terms of improving coexistence among Spaniards. From the outset it must be said that it is shocking that a body so jealous of its independence, and which tolerates very poorly the criticism that comes from other branches of government, should do exactly the same with the executive branch. The separation of powers is based on the fact that each power acts independently, according to Montesquieu's classic theory, because in this way a democratic balance is achieved and none of them obtains pre-eminence. And if Spanish legislation (here and in most of the countries around us) provides for the power of pardon for governments, it is because it is considered that sometimes the action of the courts can be counterproductive and also become an "obstacle to coexistence".

As expected, the Supreme Court has issued a report against the granting of pardons to the prisoners of the Catalan independence bid. But the arguments used by the second chamber in a document that breathes spirit of revenge and that is clearly aligned with the thesis against the government of Pedro Sánchez are no less disturbing. The Supreme insists throughout the report on the lack of repentance of those convicted and their risk of recidivism, that is, they intend the humiliation of people who were sentenced to long prison sentences for a crime, that of sedition, which is anachronistic and does not conform to the reality of the events that took place in October 2017. They intend to annihilate dissent.