More than 250 university law professors signed a statement “in defense of the Constitution and the rule of law” in which they stated that the amnesty granted through the PSOE to the Catalan independence parties “is contrary to the Constitution and the right of the European Union”. Union and, therefore, null and void. ” It is a spontaneous matrix, the signatories explain, which is not sponsored by any party or association.
The main explanation for the opposition is that such a law “violates the rule of law by subjecting judges to parliamentary majorities” and is “contrary to the precept of separation of powers in democracy. “
The signatory professors describe as a “secret coup” the fact that the pact provides for “the continued exercise of judicial force through the Congress of Deputies,” in reference to the agreement that the investigative commissions deserve to read about the investigations that they correspond. persecution.
The genuine intention of the amnesty, and its exorbitant scope, reinforces the thesis of its unconstitutionality: “An amnesty can never be constitutional or in accordance with European Union law when it is enacted in such a way that the user granted the amnesty and his friends and acquaintances – adding an alleged drug trafficker – the application of justice, in exchange for lending their votes – seven silver coins with the face of a fugitive – to the nomination of a candidate.
The paragraph refers to the seven votes of Junts in Congress necessary for Pedro Sánchez to be repeated as president of the Government, as well as the investigation into the money laundering of drug trafficker Sito Miñanco for which Gonzalo Boye, Carles Puigdemont’s lawyer, is accused.
It includes references to EU legislation, which he said contradicted Sanchez’s plans. “Neither terrorism, embezzlement nor money laundering are amnesty, according to European Union rules,” they said.
And they take into consideration that judges with pending instances similar to the procedure deserve not to apply the rule when it comes into force. “Spanish judges, as judges of the Union, must take into consideration rules contrary to European Union law in order to consider them null and inapplicable,” said the statement which, by the afternoon, had accumulated 262 signatures.