A member of the CGPJ asks that measures be taken against the president of the CyL TSJ for comparing the Nazi party with the PCE

The magistrate was against Franco's exhumation and also criticized the Historical Memory Law

MADRID, 6 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The member of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) Concepción Sáez has asked the president of the governing body of the judges to take "government and disciplinary measures" against the president of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León, José Luis Concepción, after that he compared the Nazi party with the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).

In a letter addressed to Carlos Lesmes, to which Europa Press has had access, the member alludes to some statements by Concepción in 'El Diario de Burgos' in which he pointed out that Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party "came to power through the ballot box in Germany in 1933". "And you don't have to remember the consequences of his victory," she added.

That is why the member of the CGPJ asks, as it did "unsuccessfully several months ago, that the Permanent Commission of the CGPJ and its president adopt the governmental and disciplinary measures contemplated" in the legal system "consistent with the seriousness and importance of the repeated and unjustifiable public behavior" of Concepción.

Concepción himself already made some statements in 2021, which were also denounced by the member of the CGPJ, in which he assured that the presence of communists - on the part of United We Can - in the Government of Spain put "in solfa" the democracy. For Sáez, these are "unacceptable" statements by a person with the responsibility of the judge.

But, in addition, the member explains that the CGPJ already had to examine "the public conduct" of the magistrate when he criticized before the media the use by the Spanish Government of the state of alarm as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. On that occasion, Lesmes sent him a letter asking for prudence and restraint.

Additionally, Concepción also criticized "in the media the executive's decision to exhume the remains" of dictator Francisco Franco of the Valley of the Fallen. The president of the CyL TSJ also spoke out in public against the Historical Memory Law.

In the complainant's opinion, "the successive perpetration of this type of behavior over time" and the "pertinacious reiteration by Judge Concepción despite the warnings and calls for restraint (...) do not match the figure of the responsible judge who exercises jurisdiction in a democratic society, as designed by the Constitution".

"On the contrary, his uninhibited interventions in public debates configure him as an activist at the service of ideological distinctives whose defense would only have a place, in his case, if he was outside the judiciary, never from his status as a member of the judicial career. who exercises the highest magistracy in the Autonomous Community of his destination", he concludes.