On September 24, in a context marked by paralysis, the plenary session of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) reached a significant agreement without publicity: the approval of a salary increase for its members. The decision, which was processed at the proposal of the economic affairs commission, has generated controversy due to the contrast between the speed regarding their own remuneration and the inaction in other areas of justice.

Daniel Escribano (Palma, 1978) holds a PhD in sociology and is a translator. He has published Political trials under Spanish militant democracy (Documenta Balear), in which he analyzes four judicial processes: the conviction of Batasuna senator Miguel Castells for pointing the finger at the government for the dirty war against ETA, the case of the siege of the Parliament in 2011, the case against Valtónic and the judicial repression of the Process.

It seems that Pedro Sánchez, who has seen how His family environment is besieged by a judicial uproar Instigated by the far right, she finally fell off her high horse like a Saint Paul and realized that "there are judges playing politics" who are doing "terrible harm" to the judiciary. At some point, the Spanish left will have to acknowledge—and not in a television interview—that the Transition did not represent any "break" with the judiciary of the previous autocratic regime and that the "reforms" implemented in the 1980s were so weak that they have hindered it in terms of full liberal democracy.

The former president has been disappearing from the Catalan political scene and becoming a luxuriously forgotten figure. Sometimes he reappears, but it's more a matter of form than a profound reality. Like Lladró ceramics or retired public officials, he's there and only someone remembers him from time to time, highlighting that some things are conditional on him still being in Waterloo. Even if he does speak out, he means little and has become a dead weight in the country's politics. His rapid move from the crest of a wave to the most humiliating of oblivion shows us that tempus fled and that people's capacity for amnesia is inversely proportional to their willingness to praise mythologized leaders and swear eternal love to them. It is obvious that until the amnesty that some judges resist is applied, he will remain in the way, like a stone in the road that forces walkers to go around in circles, but which is now almost history. Together, however, he remains politically trapped. Although some Puigdemontist leaders appear, the party needs and strives to return to the realpolitik, redo the itinerary of recent years and join CiU, as interest groups demand, and return to worrying about the real world as a conservative alternative linked to old Catalanism, even if the language is sovereignistBut it's necessary, above all, to make this possible, for Puigdemont to be removed from the equation and thus be able to renew faces and policies. Paradoxically, it's the judges who are so bellicose toward the trial who keep them stuck in their 2017 positions.

The plenary session of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has unanimously decided not to recognize the strike called by judges and prosecutors announced by five associations—all except the progressive ones—for next week. Thursday's agreement warns the organizers that the strike has no "legislative support" because the right to strike is not regulated for judges. Therefore, it concludes that "it is not appropriate to announce it," and recalls that it had already issued similar statements regarding the strikes called in 2009, 2012, and 2013. The organizing associations have criticized the decision and have already announced that they will continue the strike, which they consider "a legitimate, proportionate, and responsible measure."

There is a significant minority within the Spanish state that opposes democracy as a system of government. According to a CIS barometer published this Thursday, 18.5% of Spaniards do not believe that this regime is preferable. For 8.6%, an authoritarian regime is preferable "in some circumstances," and for 9.9%, it is indifferent between the two. Vox voters in particular are those who deviate from the consensus regarding a democratic regime: only 59.7% prefer democracy, while 30.3% defend authoritarianism.

Judge Mercè Caso will be the next president of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), replacing Jesús María Barrientos, who has held the position since 2016 and whose mandate expired in 2021 due to the blockage in the renewal of the judiciary.

Three Spanish judges' associations have made their rejection of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe report that calls for the release of political prisoners public this Friday. The report was rejected because it calls into question "the objectivity" of the Spanish justice system and, specifically, the trial and sentencing of the Independence bid. The Professional Association of the Magistracy, the Francisco de Vitoria Judicial Association and the Independent Judicial Forum go a little further and make an explicit request to the Spanish government: they ask it to "deploy the diplomatic instruments at its disposal" to prevent the approval of this report in the assembly of the Council of Europe, because they consider it "unfair and dishonourable to one of the powers of the State".