July 29, 2015, 5:57 Madrid, July 29 (PL) Organizations of Spanish judges and civil rights activists today asked the UN to send a mission official to the country to investigate what they consider serious government interference in judicial independence.
The complaint is contained in a letter to the special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations, signed by Judges for Democracy, Independent Judicial Forum and the civil rights organization Rights International Spain.
The report states that the Government erode the separation of powers with irregularities as the appointment of the chairman of the Board of Administrative Litigation of the Supreme Court and law reforms of the judiciary and criminal procedure.
With regard to the appointment of the President of the Third Chamber of the Supreme, Luis Díez, consider that the non-renewal of José Sieira a milestone because for the first time in history a president that level is not renewed for a second term.
This happens he adds, in a context of signs of government interference in order to avoid judicial decisions as the annulment of the pardon granted to a kamikaze driver.
Also critical reforms to the Organic Law of the Judiciary to introduce consider amendments undermine the collegiate nature and independence, without consulting civil society and hear opinions of legal operators.
According to the spokesman of Judges for Democracy, Joaquim Bosch, the pressures of political power to control the judiciary reached levels unprecedented in the democratic era and erode the credibility of the judicial institutions
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