Five associations of Civil Guards, including the majority, Justice for the Civil Guard (Jucil), have issued a statement criticizing the pacts reached by the PSOE with the Basque and Catalan nationalist parties. At the same time, they describe as an "attack on the waterline of judicial independence" the creation of commissions of inquiry in Congress or in regional parliaments for the application of the amnesty law. The text comes hours after the Ministry of the Interior announced the initiation of a file against the heads of another association, Aprogc, for a statement against the amnesty in which its authors were willing to "spill" their blood.
The text released this Saturday by the other five associations is much more cautious in its expressions. In it, Jucil, the Spanish Association of Civil Guards (AEGC), the Association of the Non-Commissioned Officers Scale (ASES-GC), the Union of Civil Guard Officers and the Professional Association of Civil Guard Corporals (APC-GC), state that, after learning of the agreement signed between the PSOE and Junts on Thursday, which refers to the commissions of inquiry, They want to show their "rejection of this measure". They call it "an attack on the waterline of judicial independence." In addition, they add that "it violates the separation of powers, the basic pillar of the rule of law".
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In reference to other agreements, they denounce that "it is intended that the Civil Guard loses powers and expels the Civil Guards and their families from the Basque Country and Catalonia", which, they say, they will not tolerate. They also denounce that the agreements contemplate "injecting significant amounts of money into the regional police" and cutting the powers of the armed institute. These agreements, they argue, make them feel that the Civil Guards are being used "as a bargaining chip in the negotiations to form a government," which will have "serious permanent consequences for the security of citizens." However, unlike the Aprogc statement also against the amnesty law, they refer to Organic Law 2/86, of 13 March, on Security Forces and Corps, which establishes that these forces will exercise their function "with absolute respect for the Constitution and the rest of the legal system".
In the last two weeks, the Ministry of the Interior has opened files against two associations for statements against the amnesty law, considering that the texts violated the principle of political neutrality that is binding on all members of the Civil Guard and that is included in the preamble and article 5 of the Law on Security Forces and Corps. in 1986. Thus, in addition to the one opened on Friday to Aprogc, on October 29 he initiated another against Jucil — one of the associations that signed this Saturday's — for a message on the social network X (formerly Twitter) where he called Sánchez's defense of the amnesty for the defendants of the procés, the day before the federal committee of the PSOE, a "felony".