Enrique Anaya, critic of the government of Nayib Bukele, said that he does not trust what can be reflected in an act and that they can later change it. He has an administrative process for alleged “professional misconduct”.
For this Friday, the constitutional lawyer, Enrique Anaya, was summoned to give his statement in the Professional Investigation Section of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) for the administrative process that is followed for the alleged “professional misconduct.”
However, the hearing in which he would present his defense arguments was suspended because he demanded that the proceedings be videotaped to “guarantee the veracity of his statement.”
The aforementioned unit that investigates the conduct of the lawyers argued that it did not have the recording equipment, it was then that the lawyer Anaya put “a virgin recording equipment (new)” at the disposal of the Professional Investigation Section.
The authorities alleged that they could not use equipment that was not typical of the Supreme Court of Justice, so Anaya’s defenders made the request in writing that the statement of the constitutional lawyer be recorded.
Then, the aforementioned section suspended the hearing and rescheduled it for next September 17, which will be recorded with the CSJ equipment, the lawyer confirmed.
Anaya told El Diario de Hoy that he prefers to have his statement recorded because “when the issues are not recorded, they can put something in the minutes that I did not say or change it. When someone is copying what one is saying, the expressions always change ”.
But what bothered the constitutionalist is that the raising of a record of the suspension of the hearing in one page took an hour and a half.
“Peculiar things about the justice system, said everything with great respect, so colonial,” said Anaya.
Investigated for filing appeal for revocation
The process followed by the Professional Investigation Section of the CSJ was derived from an appeal for revocation that was filed in November 2020 in an amparo process in the Constitutional Chamber.
The revocation presented by the lawyer was declared without place last July by the imposed magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber.
“The people who are occupying the Constitutional Chamber say that although it is true that he filed it on time, in a well-founded and respectful manner; that it does not proceed and as it does not proceed that means that I am incapable of practicing law or that I put it in bad faith, delaying the process, “said Anaya.
For the constitutional lawyer, it is clear that the opening of a sanctioning process against him “is an excuse to try to silence a critical voice of the presidential regime and the imposition of magistrates on May 1st.”
On July 7, the Supreme Court of Justice notified Anaya that a sanctioning process had been opened against him.
What seemed curious to him is that the notification was made after having published an opinion column in which he warned about some anomalies in the reelection of magistrate Óscar López Jerez as president of the Judicial Branch.
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