The PP is convinced that the 223-page judgment in which the Supreme Court pleads the conviction of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, for revealing confidential crimes concerning the partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, demonstrates that judicial independence … works in Spain. “It’s a great day for democracy,” say Genoese sources after reading the text which has the private vote of two magistrates. “The Supreme Court has confirmed that the Attorney General of Pedro Sánchez is a criminal with a definitive conviction. García Ortiz acted under the protection and on the orders of the president,” popular sources insist.
For Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party, “the sentence condemns the one who pressed the button, but not the one who ordered it”, that is to say Sánchez, whom he accuses of “using the public prosecutor’s office, the CEI and all the means at his disposal to attack the PP”.
The main opposition party makes its own reading of the sentence: “The disqualified prosecutor disclosed a private email and also participated, as he himself admitted during the trial, in the preparation of a press release containing classified data.” The crimes continue in Genoa, which made him “the first convicted attorney general” in the history of our country. “Another ‘step’ of a government that promised to fight corruption and institutionalized it,” they say, clearly referring to all the scandals currently surrounding Sánchez, his family and his party.
The most popular ones also focus on García Ortiz’s “voluntary and conscious deletion of data” on his mobile device. A destruction of evidence which “was not at all an isolated act”, affirms the PP, citing the sentence itself, because it “coincided” with the erasure carried out by the man who was then number two to Óscar López, today minister and then chief of staff of Sánchez, Pilar Sánchez Acera.
“The sentence therefore condemns the Sánchez prosecutor and designates the Sánchez government”, they reiterate in the PP, although “from Moncloa and Ferraz they do not ask forgiveness from the Spaniards” but rather “they attack the judges and affirm that they do not share it”. “They should at least be relieved not to share the sentence,” they agree in Genoa, demanding once again that Sánchez follows in the footsteps of the Attorney General and resigns.