The Supreme Court files a complaint from Clean Hands against Sánchez for the agreement between the PSOE and Junts and the amnesty law

The Supreme Court has refused to admit for processing the complaint filed by the Collective Union of Civil Servants Manos Cleans against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for the agreement signed between the PSOE and Junts on November 9. The union also denounced the subsequent pact between the socialists and ERC and the processing of the amnesty law proposal. Clean Hands attributed to Sánchez alleged crimes of usurpation of functions (arguing that the rule renders void and disallows judicial actions carried out to preserve constitutional legality, “invading and eroding the exclusive jurisdictional power that the Constitution attributes exclusively to judges. and courts”); administrative prevarication and bribery. The Supreme Court rules out that the pacts between the PSOE and the pro-independence parties may constitute a crime.

Although the President of the Government was the main target of the complaint presented by Manos Cleans – to which two associations joined -, the union also asked the Supreme Court to act against the Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz; the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños; the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente; the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán; and the socialist MEP, Irache García, as necessary collaborators in the reported crimes.

The complaint was presented on November 3, and on January 29 the union registered an extension to include the amendment registered in the parliamentary processing of the amnesty bill to exclude from the grace measure only acts of terrorism that have caused, “manifestly and with direct intention”, deaths, torture or degrading treatment. This amendment, finally, is not included in the text approved by Congress, which leaves out of the grace measure acts classified as terrorism in the European directive on this crime and in turn “have intentionally caused serious violations of human rights.” regulated in articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, which allude to the right to life and the prohibition of torture.

The Prosecutor's Office requested that the complaint be filed, a criterion that the Supreme Court has assumed. The magistrates reiterate that the pact between the PSOE and Junts is a political agreement that does not constitute a crime. “Nor can the amendments that deputies, in the exercise of their legislative function, propose during the processing of a proposal or bill deserve this qualification,” states the chamber, of which judges Manuel Marchena (president) have been part. ), Julián Sánchez Melgar, Juan Ramón Berdugo, Carmen Lamela and Eduardo de Porres, who was the speaker of the car.

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