The Government dodges, for now, the explicit clash with the Supreme Court but closes ranks with the State Attorney General. The Executive spokeswoman, Pilar Alegría, has avoided Tuesday during the appearance after the Council of Ministers to criticize the Oral Judgment Opening decision to the State Attorney General. To which, however, the Executive publicly supports.
“All respect for this resolution and all the confidence in the innocence of the State Attorney General,” he has limited himself to answering questions from the Pilar Alegría press. The minister has insisted on the position that the Government of Pedro Sánchez maintains since the beginning of the judicial offensive by the Community of Madrid to the attorney general following the scandal of the bites and the alleged realization of taxes of her partner revealed by Eldiario.es. “We have always been consitant that the attorney general has defended the truth and has pursued the crime.”
The Judge of the Supreme Court, Ángel Hurtado, has decided to open oral trial against the State Attorney General for the filtration of an email from Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The magistrate has made the decision after the Criminal Chamber confirmed, with some nuances and with one of the magistrates against Álvaro García Ortiz. The opening of oral trial, in addition to a bond of 150,000 euros, includes Hurtado's refusal that García Ortiz has to be suspended as State Attorney General as he had requested the accusation exercised by the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF).
The judge accuses García Ortiz to filter “sensitive information regarding aspects and personal data of a citizen”, a diffusion that “is not tolerable.” That filtration, the judge now adds in this order, “calls into question the prestige of the institution.” Pilar Rodríguez, provincial prosecutor of Madrid, will not finally be judged but the magistrate opens the door that, as some accusations have requested, appear as a witness in the future trial.
