Standoff over judicial appointments may be over but Spain’s justice system still faces huge challengeSpanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife Begoña Gómez, who has been cited to appear in court on July 5th for a lawsuit relating to alleged corruption and influence peddling even though a state prosecutor called for the case to be shelved for lack of evidence and a civil guard report said there had been no wrongdoing.
The commentator Enric Juliana noted that requesting the involvement of EU officials in a national dispute would be unthinkable for most other countries in the bloc. “Without the bridle of European political culture, this country would have ended up in problems again,” he said. As a result, the Socialists and the PP compete to control the CGPJ, guaranteeing its politicisation. The five-year deadlock that recently ended was caused by the conservatives’ refusal to cede influence to the governing Socialists and it has contributed to an erosion of faith in the justice system. An EU report from last year showed that 56 per cent of Spaniards see the judiciary’s independence as “fairly bad” or “very bad” .
This situation has echoes of 2019, when the supreme court gave nine Catalan leaders prison terms of up to 13 years for their role in the 2017 secession drive. The perceived injustice of those sentences triggered violent scenes on the streets of Barcelona and cemented, in the minds of many nationalist Catalans, the notion that the Spanish judiciary was controlled by vindictive magistrates who wore their conservative, unionist views on the sleeves of their togas.
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