Dear Mr. Silvera,
I do not have the pleasure of knowing you, but I thank you for the letter that you solemnly sent me through the media, and I thank you for taking the trouble to watch a fragment of my last intervention in the Plenary of the Senate of Spain.
To give readers some background, my intervention was about the LEXNET telematic communications system, an opportunity offered by a motion from the PSOE that requested the withdrawal of the system and advocated for a new one compatible with other telematic communication systems of the Autonomous Communities (CCAA) because, as you may know, in Spain, up to nine different models coexist, developed on different technological bases that make coordination and integration between them impossible, as also requested by the Socialist Party.
In my intervention, and this is a part that you may not have seen; I want to believe that this is the case, otherwise I would understand that what you are trying to do is a clear case of political manipulation, I acknowledged, as the Government acknowledges, that the LEXNET system is not perfect, that it has flaws, and that it certainly needs to improve. It is also recognized that LEXNET will not be forever.
Therefore, and this is the new opportunity that your letter gives me, I take this opportunity to tell all those who use computer applications related to justice that the Government, aware of this situation, has approved 62 million euros in the Council of Ministers to improve each and every one of the information applications, especially LEXNET. Within those 62 million euros, there are 6 million that will be allocated to some CCAA, including the Canary Islands, and I think that is an important piece of information.
Furthermore, I must emphasize, Mr. Silvera, that we have met as the Popular Parliamentary Group in the Senate and also in the Justice Committee itself with many associations of solicitors, judges, and prosecutors, as well as lawyers and solicitors at the national level. Therefore, I regret that this coordination work is not sufficient for you or that you were unaware of this fact.
On the other hand, we cannot lose sight of the fact that motions in the Senate must be quantified budgetarily, and in this case, the party you represent understood that suspending LEXNET, applying a new model, and making it compatible with the rest (something impossible given that they are different technologies from different eras) and improving electronic implementation had a cost of 1 million euros. Man! Mr. Silvera, they should have called you and given you the opportunity, as I did, to explain to them that with one million euros, and excuse the expression, "it's not even enough to buy mice", especially when the PSOE is aware that the State Government had already approved a powerful investment of 62 million euros to solve this problem.
Meanwhile, the Government and the Senate are already working within the Justice Committee in the search for the necessary consensus for new models of electronic communications and operations, pursuing that spirit of the State Pact for the reform of Justice of the year 2001, to pursue and achieve paper 0 in the field that concerns us, and we are on this path.
Sincerely,
Joel Delgado, senator for Lanzarote and La Graciosa of the Popular Parliamentary Group
