“The sentence condemns the one who pressed the button, but not the one who ordered it, that is, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón.” This is how the PP reacted to the publication of the text of the sentence that condemned the former Attorney General of the State Álvaro García Ortiz for having disclosed the email in which the partner of Isable Díaz Ayuso declared himself, through his lawyer, guilty of different crimes of tax fraud. An unfounded assertion in the sentence pronounced by the Supreme Court.
“The Supreme Court confirmed today that the Attorney General of Pedro Sánchez is a criminal with a definitive sentence,” underlines the PP in a statement sent to the media this Tuesday. “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 reserved data,” emphasizes the PP. “Crimes that made him the first state attorney general to be convicted in the history of our country. Another ‘milestone’ of a government that promised to fight corruption and institutionalized it,” he adds.
The PP highlights the “voluntary and conscious deletion of data” from the cell phone carried out by García Ortiz. “A destruction of evidence which was by no means an isolated act since it coincided with the erasure carried out by the ‘number two’ of the Presidential Cabinet at the time: Pilar Sánchez Acera.
For this reason, adds the PP, “the sentence condemns Sánchez’s prosecutor and points the finger at Sánchez’s government.” A formula, “objective”, less categorical than the initial press release which accused the president of having given the express order to filter the mail.
“They should at least be relieved not to share the sentence,” says the PP, who concludes: “Today is a great day for democracy and therefore a bad day for a president who, if he had a minimum of dignity, should follow in the footsteps of his former prosecutor and resign.”
The PSOE maintains its recognition of García Ortiz
The PSOE maintains its position regarding the conviction of Álvaro García Ortiz after learning the content of the sentence. “We accept the meaning of the judgment, but we do not share it,” Pedro Sánchez’s party said in a statement.
Socialists are concerned that the content was published two weeks after the judgment was published. “This has contributed to the uncertainty,” says the press release, which highlights the importance of the dissenting opinions which “underline that the judgment “does not describe how, where and by what means” the alleged “direct intervention” of the Attorney General or his “knowledge and collaboration with a third party” would have taken place.
“It is appropriate to recall the origin of this affair: it was not born from any conspiracy, nor from any political plot; it was born from an alleged tax fraud confessed by the boyfriend of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. All this stems from a non-declaration to the Treasury, an objective and recognized fact”, notes the press release.
Junts: “Citizens do not trust convictions”
Junts’ spokeswoman in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, said Tuesday that she did not know who to believe in reference to the Supreme Court’s decision. According to him, this situation demonstrates “a very deep problem” in the Spanish judicial system, which he attributes to its “politicization”.
“The moment something comes out of the Spanish judicial leadership and you don’t believe it, there is a very deep problem in democracy and in the Spanish judicial system,” exclaimed Nogueras, in an interview with the Cuatro television channel, after learning the content of the sentence against García Ortiz. And he insisted on this reasoning: “You tell me: are the judges right? And I don’t know. Is the prosecutor right? And I couldn’t tell you.” After that, he stressed that “if it is true” what the Supreme Court decision says, “it is very serious”, but he believes that “if it is not the case”, it is also very serious.
That said, he stressed that in an era where “citizens do not trust resolutions, or convictions, or what anyone else may say, or even those from the outside, the problem is much deeper.” Furthermore, he attributes this situation to the fact that justice has been “politicized” and that attempts have been made to “judicialize both politics and Spanish justice.”
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