It is not the first time that national events force me to evoke the genre of the grotesque, conceived by the lucid Don Ramón del Valle-Inclán, one of the great Spanish playwrights of the 20th century. However, I have the feeling that today, more than ever, the adjective grotesquely takes on a subliminal meaning in order to understand in its context the judicial crisis that the country is going through, whose protagonist is the unfortunately controversial president of the Council of Justice, a citizen with the surname Terán. But what is the grotesque? It is a grotesque deformation of a classical tragedy. It’s funny how a character becomes, who in his delirium wants to embody an epic hero, but his grotesque condition makes him only a caricature of his own pretensions.

It hurts and disgusts the low level to which the judicial function has fallen, which, apart from serious structural problems, is today the backdrop for the appearance of a character incapable of restraint, seriousness and institutional responsibility. When he says that he comes from the stars, that he is a dream walker, the image that the country has to bear is that of an egotistical clown who disappears, like smoke, perhaps to cover up a possible, very perverse, political strategy that seeks to hijack justice once again. What was the National Court thinking about when it nominated you for that position?

Immersed in his insolence, he says that with 2 votes, a majority was achieved, out of a total of 5 members, for the Judiciary to dismiss the judge of the highest court of regular justice. They did not care that the quorum for installation was achieved with the alleged presence – the state has no certainty, but no doubt – of a member appointed by the dismissed judge. And the ugliest of all: alongside Terán’s voice, we have the voice of an alleged drunkard, who can do whatever he wants in his personal life, but who was loudly demanded responsibility and sobriety in the exercise of his authority. the high public office with which he is unfortunately invested.

(…) you must be aware that this twisted production should embarrass us lawyers.

This became an endurance race: we had to endure too much. How much? We saw him convulsing at court hearings where he tried – successfully – to denature the protective proceedings. We saw him organizing marches and counter-marches. And he speaks with the demagogic and vulgar style of the old Sabbaths. As well as protected by a pseudo-communications team capable of attacking journalists mid-interview. How is it possible to tolerate so much?

I find it incredible that as a society we have to endure this alienation. We do not deserve this kind of grotesque, pathetic and onanistic spectacle. Every law student should be aware that this twisted production should fill us lawyers with shame. I hope the State Attorney’s Office has exhausted its efforts to investigate possible obstruction of justice. And if it doesn’t happen, we will take comfort in the fact that the protagonists of the grotesque will finish, sooner rather than later, playing their stinking roles in the dustbin of history. (OR)