In a letter to the representatives of the public ministry in the process trial, he reminds them of the obligation of the prosecution to “respect the principle of separation of powers inherent to the rule of law.”
The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, has not waited for the Fiscal Council that the members of the conservative Association of Prosecutors had forced him to convene to rule on the amnesty law. Or rather to not do it. ANDn a letter to the representatives of the public ministry in the trial of the process reminds them of the obligation of the prosecution to “respect the principle of separation of powers inherent to the rule of law“, which vetoes any pronouncement by the institution on the amnesty law, the wording of which is not yet final.
The letter, sent to the entire prosecutor’s career, responds to one published by prosecutors Fidel Cadena, Javier Zaragoza, Consuelo Madrigal and Jaime Moreno in the newspaper ‘El Mundo’. In his letter, García Ortiz states that “Any position of the public ministry regarding a future amnesty for the events that occurred in Catalonia in relation to the independence process requires knowing the definitive norm. that regulates once it is part of our legislation after its publication in the BOE”.
“The positioning – in any technical-legal case – of the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office will be carried out through statutory channels and in the procedures in which our intervention is requested. Consequently, the attorney general must maintain a public position that reinforces the principle of impartiality of the public prosecutor’s office by virtue of which it acts with full objectivity and independence in defense of the interests entrusted to it”.