
The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezonce again supported the former State Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz, in this case, the day on which the content of the Supreme Court judgment condemning him for revealing secrets was made public. Sánchez stressed that García Ortiz defended “the truth” and stressed that the person who must apologize is the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz 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 General Prosecutor’s Office of the State?”, 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 Ayuso (Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid) and the one who must hold them accountable is Mr. (Alberto Núñez) Feijóo,” he continued, referring to the national leader of the PP.
For her part, the regional president described the Supreme Court’s decision against García Ortiz as “very severe” and added that “it would bring down a government in any liberal democracy.” This is how Ayuso assessed it this Tuesday from Torrejón de Ardoz, where he inaugurated the Alma Mater Higher Education Center.
The president of the government reiterated his defense of the former prosecutor a few hours later make public the content of the sentence pronounced against him. On November 20, it was already known that the Superior Court had found García Ortiz guilty for leaking the email in which the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, Ayuso’s associate, admitted that his client had committed two crimes of tax fraud.