The State Attorney General, Alvaro Garcia Ortizsaid this Saturday that the position of the Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding the amnesty law requires “know it literally“, and has assured that he will “always ensure the independence of the courts.”
Garcia Ortiz has participated in the XXIV Congress of the Association of Prosecutors that has been held in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) and said at the end of his speech that “any positioning of the Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding the announced amnesty law requires, in any case, to know it literally.” He added that this positioning will be done “through the statutory channels and in the procedures in which the legal system demands our intervention”.
Alvaro Garcia Ortiz has influenced the tax career and “this attorney general“they will always ensure “the independence of the courts” and will seek before them the “satisfaction of social interest. It is our constitutional and legal imperative.” Cristina Dexeusspokesperson and president of the Association of Prosecutors, showed yesterday Friday at the same congress her “absolute rejection” of the amnesty law agreed by the PSOE and Junts, and said that it is “an unprecedented attack on judicial independence.”
No to lawfare
The Prosecutors Association issued a statement on Thursday in which it showed its “firmest opposition” to the approval of an amnesty law and an agreement that contemplates the possibility of “establishing investigative commissions on judicial actions that may generate liability actions.” This association qualified in the statement as “inadmissible” the use of the term “judicial war” (lawfare) used in the agreement, as it is a concept that “does not fit” into the current constitutional order.
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In his speech, the attorney general has shown his respect and recognition to his colleagues who participate in prosecutors’ associations, although he has pointed out that “the institutional exercise of a position is not the same as the full development of associative life.”
He has also said that the hierarchical dependency in the Public Prosecutor’s Office “should only be at the service of the unity of action, and both principles at the service of legal security and the equality of all before the law in any part of the territory of the State.” .