“The prosecution has been used for perverse political purposes”

As the TS states in its judgment – announced on November 20 – the state attorney general “cannot respond to false news by committing a crime”. crime”, indicating that in this case the revelation of the secrets against González Amador was due both to the leak to the media of the “e-mail” in which the businessman proposed to confess and to the publication of the press release that mentioned it.

Meanwhile, this same Wednesday, a day after the announcement of the sentence condemning García Ortiz, Therese Peramato promised his position before King Felipe VI as the new state attorney general.

The publication of the TS judgment condemning García Ortiz provoked all kinds of reactions. The President of the Government himself once again came to the defense of the former State Attorney General, emphasizing that He defended “the truth”. “If the one who should ask for forgiveness is Ms. Ayuso and the one who should demand responsibilities from Ms. Ayuso is Mr. Feijóo,” he said.

For his part, Isabel Diaz Ayuso He welcomed this Tuesday that “the rule of law works despite the attempts of the government itself”. According to the Madrid president, sentences like this would bring down any government in any liberal democracy. “We can’t get used to everything being valid,” he said.

Opinion of José Manuel Soto on the sentence handed down to García Ortiz

The publication of the judgment also sparked reactions outside the political sphere. And different personalities wanted to give their opinion on the conviction of García Ortiz on their social networks. One of them was the singer Jose Manuel Soto.

The Sevillian, who usually comments on different news on his social networks, also wanted to comment on the TS judgment in a message published on your X account this Tuesday.

For Soto, with the publication of the sentence “it was demonstrated that the (then) State Attorney General propagation or consent to propagation an individual’s private tax information, violate your rights“.

According to the Sevillian singer, García Ortiz’s disclosure to the media of Gonzalez Amador’s “email” and the publication of the press release that mentioned it had clear political objectives: “Harm Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the government’s main rival”.

Soto goes further in his complaint to García Ortiz after the publication of the Supreme Court ruling for which he was convicted and concludes his message in X with a harsh accusation against the government: “The prosecution has been used for perverse political purposes”.