The government decided to take with irony and even mockery the legal arguments of the Supreme Court’s decision condemning the former state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz. Once the sentence was known, which the Executive insists on respecting, to the point that it has already appointed a new Attorney General, Teresa Peramato, at least two ministers took the arguments almost as a joke, in particular the fact that five of the seven judges – the other two expressed a dissenting vote – consider it proven that García “or someone close to him” was the author of the leak of the email containing information about Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner, although that during the trial no definitive proof was provided on this subject. case. sense. Executive sources indicate privately that they now hope that, with these arguments, the Constitutional Court will agree with García Ortiz in the appeal for protection that he will undoubtedly present.
While other ministers, such as Oscar López, entered into direct confrontation and mocked the phrase, saying that “there are Hollywood scenarios that have less creativity”, Sánchez defended Álvaro García Ortiz during an event at the UGT. “Today they (the PP) are giving lessons for punishment to an Attorney General who, what he did, defended the truth and the institution of the Attorney General’s Office. The one who should ask for forgiveness is Ms. Ayuso! And Feijóo should ask for explanations. The least important thing is Ms. Ayuso’s brother, or Ms. Ayuso’s boyfriend. The most serious is Mr. Feijóo who bows to her,” shouted the president.
López, who in addition to being a minister is the leader of the PSOE in Madrid and the main political rival of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has always been responsible for launching the harshest messages against the Supreme Court ruling since it became known. He has always been much more direct than Pedro Sánchez, who avoided entering into a direct confrontation, although he has already stated on several occasions that he does not share the decision and hopes that the Constitutional Court will decide the opposite way, as well as the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños. This Tuesday, the government allowed López and Óscar Puente, another minister very harsh towards the Supreme Court, to give their opinion on the sentence, while the spokesperson for the executive, Pilar Alegría, avoided doing so.
In an interview with TVE, López used irony to disqualify legal arguments. “I’ve seen a lot of Hollywood scripts with less creativity than that sentence. It seems the main argument is that we have no proof that it was the prosecutor (the leaker), but it can’t be anyone else,” López complained.
Minister Puente was even more sarcastic with this idea. On the social network
López also deplores that the lies of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso’s right-hand man, go unpunished. “I understand that the sentence also mentions that what Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who revealed all this, said was a hoax. The person who should resign is Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. It was a hoax created by the Community of Madrid, but all that does not matter,” assured the minister. On the contrary, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, also a lawyer, avoided criticizing the sentence and showed her “total and absolute” confidence in the Supreme Court. If “all” institutions do not inspire trust, he explained, “democracy does not work.”
Sumar calls to “defend democracy”
PSOE spokesperson Montse Mínguez also used sarcasm: “A new legal concept is born: filtration without filter. After three weeks, we know a sentence that leaves more doubts than certainties,” she noted. The PSOE issued a statement in which it defends the dissenting vote in which the two judges point out that “it does not describe how, nor where, nor by what means” the “direct intervention” of García Ortiz in the leak would have taken place.
Meanwhile, Sumar, the other part of the government coalition, called for “defending democracy.” “A sentence was written upon request to condemn a just man. The State Public Prosecutor’s Office only tried to defend the institution against the hoaxes promoted by the great political, economic and financial powers of Madrid. Today more than ever it is time to defend democracy”, they say.
From Podemos, MEP Irene Montero described the sentence as “putschist”. “The question here is what we are going to do. I think this is no longer the time to be outraged. We must respond democratically to the putschist right,” he concluded.
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