The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, does not contemplate resigning after the decision of the Supreme Court to open oral trial against him for the filtration of an email in which Isabel Díaz Ayuso's couple confessed to having committed two fiscal crimes. Sources of his environment explain that García Ortiz's determination remains to be maintained in his position and that he hopes to prove his innocence before the court that will judge him soon. The Head of the Public Ministry has defended in many occasions that “it cannot be that the lie defeats a general prosecutor.”
The decision of the instructor Ángel Hurtado to sit on the bench does not modify, therefore, the position that García Ortiz maintained when the magistrate decided to open a cause against him and when he agreed to his processing, which later confirmed the criminal hall with some nuances and with one of the magistrates against.
“If I am here as the State Attorney General, it is because I believe in justice and in the institutions that make it up. I believe in the rule of law, in the independence of the Judiciary, in the principles of legality and impartiality. And, of course, also in the truth,” García Ortiz said last Friday in his speech in the solemn act of opening of the judicial year and before the criminal hall that will judge him.
The Attorney General went to the Supreme Court fulfilling the legal mandate that regulates the participation of the Head of the Public Ministry in this act to account for the memory of the institution. His intervention, however, took place in an environment of enormous tension after the most conservative judicial and fiscal associations and the vowels of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) elected at the initiative of the PP claim that they did not go. The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, was not present at the event when considering that the presence of García Ortiz is a “provocation.”
