The main conservative associations of judges and prosecutors have requested that Álvaro García Ortiz, State Attorney General, does not go to the opening ceremony of the judicial year that will take place in the Supreme Court together with the king and the president of the Council of the Judiciary. They claim, shortly after Alberto Núñez Feijóo has announced that he will not attend, that his presence this Friday “constitutes an act of contempt for the basic principles of the rule of law and the head of the State itself.”
The Supreme will host this Friday the traditional opening act of the judicial year in which, as every year, it is planned to appear both Felipe VI and Isabel Perelló, president of the CGPJ, and the Attorney General, with speeches of the three and, in the case of García Ortiz, the public presentation of the annual report of the Public Ministry. An appointment that arrives a month after the Supreme has declared firm its processing for the filtration of an email from Isabel Díaz Ayuso waiting for Judge Angel Hurtado to open oral trial against him.
Three associations have asked the Attorney General not to go to the appointment. The two majority and conservative of both careers – professional association of the magistracy and association of prosecutors – and the professional and independent association of prosecutors, who exercise the popular accusation against him, has asked to be sentenced to jail and to be provisionally suspended in the position.
After affirming that they respect the “presumption of innocence” of the attorney general, the three associations ensure that García Ortiz's presence in the great annual act of the Spanish justice “mine the credibility of justice and affects all the judges, magistrates and prosecutors that every day we played our function from the absolute independence.” They ask that he will not go “out of respect for his Majesty the king and those who integrate the judicial and fiscal careers.”
The presence of García Ortiz on the spot, which he already appeared last year after the Superior Court of Madrid requested his imputation, has also led the leader of the Popular Party to announce that he will not go. From the government, several ministers have publicly defended that there is no problem in representing the Public Ministry. Pedro Sánchez himself, in a recent interview on TVE, has backed García Ortiz in his post.
