Overview

• The Supreme Court denounced the president’s comments as an attempt to forge a “justicia sanchista,” and the CGPJ is preparing an institutional response.
• Government sources say the Executive will escalate its confrontation with the judiciary while defending its right to criticize judicial actions.
• Sánchez’s remarks pointed to judges overseeing cases involving his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez, with references to magistrates Juan Carlos Peinado and Beatriz Biedma.
• Three major judicial associations (APM, AJFV, FJI) called the statements very serious, while Juezas y Jueces para la Democracia offered a more qualified critique.
• The PP plans to take the issue to European institutions with a complaint to the European Commission, as the Supreme Court also weighs opening an oral trial against Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz after the judicial-year opening.