The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, described the Supreme Court’s ruling against former State Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz as “very harsh” and added that “it would bring down a government in any liberal democracy”. This was stated on Tuesday by Madrid President Torrejón de Ardoz, after the resolution adopted by the High Court was made public, in which she considers that García Ortiz or “someone close to him” disclosed the email in which the lawyer of Ayuso’s partner admitted that his client had committed two crimes of tax fraud.
As part of the inauguration of the Alma Mater Higher Education Center, Ayuso wanted to make two considerations. First, he finds this situation “very sad” use of institutionswhich belong to all Spaniards”, by the government and President Pedro Sánchez.
Second, he called it “positive” that it has been demonstrated that the rule of law “works” and that “the prosecution cannot be used to attack a political adversary.” “These practices cannot be tolerated, and that is why they have spread across the world, as we have seen in recent days. In any liberal democracy, this would lead to the fall of a government,” Ayuso stressed.
Sánchez reiterates his support for García Ortiz
For his part, Sánchez supported García Ortiz again saying the former state attorney general stood for “the truth” and stressed that “the one who must ask for forgiveness is Ayuso.”
“And today they are lecturing on what, a conviction to a state attorney general that what he did was defend the truth and the institution of the State Attorney General’s Office?”, launched the head of the Executive during a UGT event on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the founder of the union and the PSOE, Pablo Iglesias Posse. “If the one who should apologize is Mrs. Ayuso and the person who must hold Ms. Ayuso accountable is Mr. (Alberto Núñez) Feijóo,” he continued, referring to the national leader of the PP.
The Superior Court made public on Tuesday the sentence by which it imposes two years of disqualification on García Ortiz for the position of Attorney General and 7,200 euros for the crime of disclosure of confidential data, and which has the dissenting vote of two magistrates, who supported the acquittal.
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