The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, affirmed his confidence in the innocence of the State Prosecutor, Alvaro García Ortiz, on charges of revealing the secrets of Alberto González Amador, a friend of the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
“The government still believes in his innocence, especially after everything we have seen,” Sánchez said on Sunday in an interview with El País newspaper compiled by Europa Press. “I insist that we believe in his innocence, after what we heard and saw this week, and even more so.”
The CEO believes that the truth “will prevail in the end,” noting that the truth is that “the State Attorney General is innocent.” “The government has supported an innocent person with arguments and reasons, and we trust in justice,” he admitted when asked about the possibility of Garcia Ortiz resigning from his position.
However, when asked about his words last September when he said that there are judges who play politics, Sánchez acknowledged that he must be “very careful and respectful” with judicial procedures affecting family members and charges against the “clay machine” that, in his opinion, has been launched by the right and the extreme right.
“I did this because far-right unions like Clean Hands, like Hazte Oír, make complaints based on the cuts and what the opposition does is amplify them with data, going to TVs and digital tabloids to say that all this is a scandal. Then ad hoc committees like the Senate committee are created, where accountability is not sought, but hoaxes are spread,” he criticized.
He also has faith in justice in the cases against his wife and brother and insists that the truth “will prevail in the end.” In this sense, he argues that political polarization is “unequal” and points out that the SWP has had more attacks on its headquarters “than any other organisation.”
He commented, “Anti-politics calls for anti-politics. The intellectual and political campaign and even the whitewashing of the extreme right carried out by the right to justify a regional and local understanding with the Vox Party constitutes the ultimate explanation for why the extreme right has grown in our country.”
Re-election 2027
During the interview, Sánchez confirmed that he will run for re-election in 2027 because he is aware of the responsibility he has and defends that in the Socialist Workers Party “there has never been any irregular financing.” “Where there was irregular funding with the final ruling is in the Popular Party,” he says.
The Prime Minister notes that Spain’s parliamentary complexity “is not a problem” and believes that it can be reconciled with good government. He adds: “There is economic and social data for the past seven years.”
Regarding the parliamentary blockade of Gontz, Sánchez responds that they are not in a position to call elections to clarify this issue, and adds that they have complied with the Catalan party on issues related to their full competence. He adds: “And in cases that do not do so, we work to ensure that they are met.”
On the other hand, he admits that it is “necessary” to formulate more agreements with the PP, but “reality is stubborn” and shows that after the summer fires, he proposed a government pact against the climate emergency, but “Fijo agrees with the extreme right precisely to deny this climate emergency.” He points out that “the People’s Party surrendered to the extreme right and participated in absurdity.”
Moreover, he admits that “it has been a long time” since he last spoke with Figo, whom he accuses of “opening regional governments wide to the far right.” He added, “It is not good news that the far right is growing in any democracy. But I also say that the political, media and intellectual right, as long as progressive forces do not rule, are capable of whitewashing the discourse of the far right.”
The relationship with Mexico and the book of the titular king
Finally, in the interview, Sánchez addressed the state of relations with the United States or Mexico. In the first case, the Prime Minister makes it clear that, beyond ideological and political differences – “obvious and obvious” – what he wants is to have the best relations in institutional, economic and social terms.
Regarding Mexico, he responded that diplomacy “requires and needs a certain amount of discretion” and stressed that the normalization of relations with a country that it considers “very close in all dimensions” is a priority for Spain. “I have always told Mexican officials that the government of Spain, in this long, deep and close historical relationship that binds us, has always hogged the limelight,” he says.
However, he believes that it is also good to get to know the “chiaroscuros” in order to better understand and thus continue to build those relationships “on more solid foundations.” Regarding King Emeritus Juan Carlos I’s book “Reconciliation”, Sanchez says that he has not read the book and that “after seeing what he saw” it will not be one of the books he recommends this Christmas.
He concludes: “The current head of state is doing a commendable job. I will respond to some things that, in short, surprised me, about who brought democracy and who did not. Democracy did not fall from the sky; it was the result of the struggle of Spanish men and women, ordinary people, pedestrians of history, as Vázquez Montalbán said.”
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