The Socialist Parliamentary Group has registered this Friday in Congress the “organic law proposal to guarantee and protect fundamental rights against harassment derived from abusive judicial actions”, which aims to limit popular accusation, prohibiting it from being exercised by political parties and associations. and foundations linked to them; as well as the admission of complaints based “on mere hypotheses without a minimum foundation of credibility, or on journalistic information or information contained in any media or communication or dissemination channel without other data or factual elements that serve to indirectly prove the reported facts.” The proposal, advanced by Cadena SER, is registered after the opening of an investigation against the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, based on press clippings. “Exceptionally,” the text adds, “they will be admitted when they reflect unverified facts, but of general knowledge or statements made freely and spontaneously by the suspected person in relation to the object of the investigation, or statements by personalities or political organizations that “They have not been denied or questioned in the process.”
The rule that the PSOE intends to approve would require modifying the Penal Code, to repeal its article 525, which establishes fine penalties of eight to 12 months for those who; and to modify several articles of the Criminal Procedure Law. Nor could the central and regional governments exercise popular accusation; the Congress, the Senate and the regional assemblies; judges and prosecutors and their professional associations; the Constitutional Court, the General Council and the other governing bodies of the Judiciary, the Court of Accounts and the Ombudsman. The text of the proposal establishes that “those who intend to exercise popular action must act by virtue of a specific, relevant and sufficient link with the public interest protected in the criminal process” and that they must “accredit before the judicial authority.”
