Grandstands
The problem is not with the opinion makers, who have the right to think what they want about García Ortiz’s innocence or guilt, but with those who take the separation of powers to the limit, trying to influence the judges’ decisions and openly criticizing those they do not like.
This Thursday the trial of Alvaro Garcia Ortizaccused of a certainly serious crime. Especially if this is attributed to someone who, as State Attorney General, must ensure the rights of all citizens and strict compliance with the law.
Now it’s time to wait and let the Supreme Court deliberate and decide whether to acquit or convict. In the case of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court – in which our laws reside the last word on the interpretation of criminal law, and made up of magistrates of the highest solvency and prestige -, I have few doubts about the quality of the sentence that will finally be handed down, whatever its nature.
Unfortunately, I also believe that it will not satisfy about half of the many hooligans of the stories that abound in the party headquarters, the media, the radio talk shows and the bars of our geography.
That half who, without being legal professionals (some even are), without having attended the trial or analyzed the evidence in any depth, will in any case feel authorized to give a lecture. And to say that the condemnation (if it condemns) or the acquittal (if the opposite) of the poor man (the former) or the scoundrel (the latter) of García Ortiz is a shame.
The problem, however, is not with those opinion makers, who of course have/we have the right to think whatever we want about the innocence or guilt of the accused García Ortiz.
“The hooligans in the story are willing to heat up the atmosphere before and after each trial. And the position adopted by the accused, clinging until nausea to his status as attorney general, has contributed to this.”
The problem lies with those who, motivated by their ambitions, like to push the separation of powers to the limit, trying to influence the judges’ decisions and openly criticizing those they do not like. And, furthermore, they do it without the slightest modesty from positions and with means that we all pay with our taxes.
And who, for that very reason hooliganismare willing to heat up the atmosphere before and after each match/trial, believing that this will better guarantee victory. And forgetting that, for matters of Justice (as in general, for those of democracy and collective coexistence), and as the professor said Unamunoit is not as important to win as to convince. This is a beautiful infinitive that, etymologically, simply means “to conquer together.”
Unfortunately, The position adopted by the accused has had a lot to do with this tension.clinging to the point of nausea – and even hell – to his status as attorney general.
With this position, García Ortiz has made it very difficult to believe that a subordinate of his – the representative of the Public Ministry in this trial – could act independently in it, surrounding herself with a choir of master singers inside and outside the courtroom that was not even in Nuremberg.
As if resigning from his position so that no one would think that he might be tempted to use it to better defend himself from it, or to prevent someone from confusing the person with the institution, was not even acceptable.
And all, with the constant encouragement of a Government surrounded by weakness and suspicionand with an eye on all places except the Official State Gazette. A Government prepared to sacrifice the UCO, the Supreme Court and whoever is necessary in order to continue governing the most absolute irrelevance in which it has established itself, without Budgets, without laws and without damn the grace of no longer satisfying even the one from Waterloo.
Let us trust, in any case, in Justice, embodied in those seven men and women of the Second Chamber, who will undoubtedly resolve only according to the evidence they have witnessed, to apply the law accordingly and reach the appropriate ruling. Whether this is the one we like the most, or its opposite.
Because, at the end of the day, Justice continues to be the most valuable thing we have left in these turbulent times.
*** Alfonso Trallero is a lawyer.