“You cannot go from minister to attorney general, and from participating in acts of the Socialist Party of Galicia to attorney general of the State. It is another fraud that you are committing.” The author of these words is the senator of the PP Fernando de Rosa, who last Wednesday defended his group’s rejection of the reform of the Judicial Power Law that seeks to force the renewal of the Constitutional Court, pending for more than a month by his party’s refusal to unblock the General Council of the Judiciary. In his speech, De Rosa attacked the Government, whom he accused of wanting to “occupy” the court of guarantees and of maneuvering to place like-minded members, while the PP is the one who watches over “the independence of the Judiciary.”
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“It has been verified that, with the counter-reform of the reform, with its amendments and self-amendments to the Organic Law of the Judiciary, what you are seeking is to occupy the Constitutional Court,” said the senator, who pointed out that this was the hidden objective ” since the 2018 motion of censure.” “The renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary is the means to achieve the end: to appoint magistrates who stain their togas with road dust, as Cándido Conde Pumpido said,” he added.
De Rosa explained that the PP’s veto of the reform of the law that was approved on Wednesday is based “on the independence of the Judiciary.” Something that, he maintained, the coalition government does not know what it is. “This is applicable to the state attorney general who has already resigned [Dolores Delgado], which makes us very happy, and also his replacement, the one you propose, Álvaro García Ortiz, because you cannot go from minister to attorney general and from participating in acts of the Socialist Party of Galicia to attorney general of the State. It is another fraud that you guys are committing,” he added. De Rosa thus refers to the participation of the future chief of prosecutors in an act of the PSdG in 2019, but it is obvious that last week the Supreme Court prosecutor Javier Zaragoza did the same in a conference organized by the PP and that he closed in Alberto Núñez Feijóo himself was present.
But who is this senator? According to his biographical file on the Senate website, Fernando de Rosa (Valencia, 1959) has no past beyond the Senate. Married and with a son, the representative of the PP only provides as “political data” a previous mandate in the short legislature between the elections of April 2019 and the repetition of November of the same year. Nothing more. De Rosa, close to retirement age, presents a blank resume until just three years ago. On the PP website your record is blank. Nor is there a trace in his presentation on Twitter, although a small detail appears on his Instagram account: “Magistrate on leave of absence.”
Because Fernando de Rosa has a past. And not a past alien to politics and the highest institutions of the State, precisely. In fact, he has passed through different classes that invite us to think that his is not a profile that fits his own words.
De Rosa is a judge and became dean of judges in Valencia between 1998 and 2003. By then he was already a veteran militant of the PP. In fact, he has had the card since the times of the Popular Alliance that founded a group of Francoist ministers with Manuel Fraga at the head.
But for De Rosa the judiciary fell short and in 2003 he made the leap to politics. That year, Francisco Camps appointed him Secretary of Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana, a second level in the ministries of the Government. The relationship between De Rosa and Camps came from afar: the judge and militant of the PP was the one who affiliated the future president to Alianza Popular when the party opposed the decriminalization of abortion or reluctantly accepted divorce, although the judicial problems of the former president they made him renounce his friendship.
His work must have convinced his boss because in the following legislature he was promoted to Minister of Justice and Public Administrations. He was not in office long, just over a year. The PP had more important destinations for him: the General Council of the Judiciary. De Rosa went from counselor to vice president of the governing body of the judges under the presidency of Carlos Dívar.
Despite defending his “independence” when appointed by the PP for the position, from the Vice Presidency of the CGPJ he made resounding statements. He highlights some about the investigations into the almighty president of the Castellón Provincial Council, Carlos Fabra. “I will fight against the judicial delay of the Fabra case”, said. When the economic scandals of Dívar motivated his resignation, De Rosa accidentally and briefly ascended to the Presidency of the CGPJ and, therefore, of the Supreme Court.
After passing through the governing body of the judges, and before that through Valencian politics, he returned to the judiciary. In 2015, three years after leaving it, the new CGPJ appointed him president of the Provincial Court of Valencia. A position that he abandoned to return to politics at the hands of Pablo Casado. In 2019 he was elected senator of the Valencian Community twice: in the April elections and in the November elections.
Since then, he has been the spokesman for the PP in the Justice Commission of the Senate, which means a salary of 6,143.2 euros for 14 payments.
“The Popular Party is willing to carry out any negotiation to guarantee the independence of the Judiciary,” said De Rosa, with all his history in tow, at the end of his speech in the Senate last Wednesday.
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