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Félix Bolaños appealed to the CGPJ after being denied the full file on his complaints against Juan Carlos Peinado
The Justice minister questioned the disciplinary authority’s refusal within the Council and said the handling of his complaint favored the magistrate’s impunity because of his imminent retirement. He also warned that the lack of access to the documentation leaves him defenseless.
Félix Bolaños filed a new appeal before the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) against the decision to deny him full access to the file on his complaints against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, the investigating judge in the case linked to Begoña Gómez.
According to EL PAÍS, the filing was addressed to the CGPJ’s permanent commission after the body rejected the minister’s earlier appeal and definitively closed his complaints over Peinado’s conduct when he questioned him as a witness about the contract of Cristina Álvarez, an adviser to Begoña Gómez.
In that filing, Bolaños argued that the Council delayed processing his complaint and then resolved to dismiss it with sudden speed, with the effect of favoring the magistrate’s “impunity,” as he retires this week.
eldiario.es added that the minister said the refusal to hand over the documentation causes him “real and effective defenselessness,” since it prevents him from gathering all the necessary elements to go to other instances, including the Supreme Court.
According to that outlet, Bolaños contrasted the 14 months it took to process his complaints with the 18 days the Permanent Commission took to analyze and reject his first appeal. In that context, he said that difference in timing feeds a perception of corporatism that is harmful to the image of the judiciary.
Still according to eldiario.es, the minister also questioned the legal basis used by the CGPJ to block access to the file. The Promoter of Disciplinary Action had argued that those informational proceedings are confidential, but Bolaños replied that that confidentiality is intended to protect the judge from public opinion, not from the complainant.
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