From the take down notice:
> In Spain, judicial authorities are responsible for the supervision and control of websites in order to prevent the dissemination of criminal content as it is specified in the article 35 of our Law 34/2002 and the article 13 of our Criminal Procedure Code.
Granted here it is used as the omnibus term as opposed to its own division.
An American reading the title wouldn't be mislead (we're generally confused when other countries talk about forming new governments) but an English-fluent person from another parliamentary country might be misled.
From the context of this subthread seems like the Spanish think of government as executive and legislature, with judiciary separate too.
As long as Spain's judiciary still sees it fit to hand out multi-year sentences to people peacefully following democratic principles, they seem very much an extension of the government and not an independent body.
There's nothing in that paragraph that qualifies as an argument against the separation of powers. In fact, I'd say that's pretty much the opposite, considering that PSOE has been pressuring for lower sentences.
There are such arguments, like how the Constitutional Court judges are elected, but in the end it's up to the Judiciary branch to decide what to do about, and nobody can interfere.
The judiciary follows the laws, which are written by the senate, which is elected by the spanish people.
So those "people peacefully following democratic principles" being arrested is the will of the Spanish people. If they don't like it, they should have voted better.
Guardia Civil is really a police force like the french Gendarmerie, seen it described as paramilitary is a bit odd, tbh.