Judges and prosecutors associations ask the Attorney General not to go to the opening of the judicial year
Two prosecutors and one of judges have issued a statement to show their rejection of the presence of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, pending that he opens a trial against him for an alleged crime of revelation of secrets, in the opening of the judicial year. The signatories are the Professional Association of the Magistracy (APM), majority and conservative guidance; the association of prosecutors, majority and conservative; and the Professional Professional Association of Prosecutors (APIF), also conservative, but of less implementation.
“Siting together with SM the king and before the Judiciary to a person against whom, in all likelihood oral trial will open is an unusual fact, which constitutes an act of contempt for the basic principles of the State and the head of the State itself, mine the credibility of justice and affects all the judges, magistrates and prosecutors that every day we play our function from the absolute independence and with scrupulous respect for the principle of legality,” they have written.
The three associations underline their respect for the presumption of innocence of the Attorney General, but put above “particular interests” of public servants “respect for the institutions and what they represent”, therefore, they ask the prosecutor to, out of respect for the King and those who integrate the judicial and fiscal careers refrain from assisting the act.
