18
Jun
2025
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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)
Mr President, how many scandals fit into a single government before it ceases to be a government and simply becomes a mechanism of self-protection? When judges, prosecutors and the Supreme Court itself raise their voices, it is not institutional formalism. The rule of law, gentlemen, does not negotiate, it does not adapt to the whims of those in power. In Spain, Sánchez heads a survival scheme where loyalty is bought with amnesties and silence is rewarded with impunity. It's not government, it's capture. Mr President, Spain has become a theatre where corruption is not denied, it is relativised; the crime is not committed, it is interpreted. And the rule of law, that old pillar of European democracy, is nothing more than an institutional and empty adornment. Democracy waits suspended as one who observes, with some shame, that no one dares to put an end to the farce. Because the Spaniards know it: Justice is not amnesty, let alone impunity. When Justice is manipulated from within, it ceases to be an internal matter of Spain to become a European crisis. Ladies and gentlemen, from that famous PSOE club there is only one man left to fall: Pedro Sanchez.