The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has called the Supreme Court’s decision to condemn the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, for the alleged leak of the email of the couple of the top Madrid president, Alberto González Amador, in which he acknowledged his tax crimes. The decision, he stated, shows that “Justice works” although, next, he considered that the investigation into his partner and what happened to the prosecutor “are facts typical of a dictatorship.”
“In no liberal democracy does a prosecutor depend on the President of the Government and even fewer cooperate in coordination in State operations until they are condemned by the Supreme Court,” Ayuso considered in an appearance before the media at the headquarters of the Presidency of Madrid, in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, in which he did not admit questions from the press. “How do we explain to the world that Spain does not tolerate its president attacking the Judiciary with impunity?” he asked.
For Ayuso, “No. 20, 2025”, just when 50 years have passed since the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, will become “a historic day for Spanish democracy” due to the sentencing of the prosecutor to two years of disqualification and a fine of 7,200 euros for a crime of revealing confidential data. In the opinion of the Madrid president, the punishment is, however, for “committing a crime with the sole objective of attacking and harming a political adversary” and seeking her own dismissal. Furthermore, he has expressed that Spain “does not deserve a Government that lies to them, nor that breaks them in two.”
“It has been demonstrated that the rule of law works despite the fact that those who had the obligation to defend it and uphold the law dedicated themselves to committing crimes,” he added. “We have seen how a private citizen can obtain the protection and tutelage of our courts against the crimes that the power of the State may commit against him, because the revelation of a citizen’s secrets by the State Attorney General has not only violated the fundamental rights of a Spaniard, it shows the vulnerability of everyone’s rights,” he added.
“It is Sánchez who has sat on the bench”
“It is not the State Attorney General, but Pedro Sánchez who has sat in the dock,” Ayuso continued in the same vein as on Thursday, when he tweeted a similar message on his X account and did so in Spanish and English. According to her, the Government’s strategy is “civil war” and the policy of “fronts”, although she has later specified: “Spain did not want sides at the time and it does not want them now. This game has gone very far.”
Regarding his partner, who precisely during the trial of the attorney general said that he was thinking of committing suicide or leaving “Spain” after recognizing his tax fraud and being charged by the courts, Ayuso has assured that he hopes and wishes “that the power of the State never again violates the rights of any other citizen.” “No Spaniard should put up with something like that,” he concluded.
“The President of the Government has decided to dynamit the separation of powers and establish himself as judge and party. That is why he ordered the State Attorney’s Office to file a complaint against the judge investigating his wife and that is why he tried to impose the prosecutor’s sentence on the Supreme Court in the middle of the trial. And that is also why a machinery of plumbers related to different corruption plots was ordered to attack judges, prosecutors and journalists to prevent them from doing their work in freedom to defame and intimidate them,” he maintained.
What happened to García Ortiz is, for her, “an unacceptable and dangerous outrage, as well as a crime that should never have happened in a liberal democracy” like the Spanish one. “Since when can a democracy normalize the President of the Government to use State power illegally against political adversaries?” he asked.
“One more step towards civil war”
Despite her partner’s confession, Ayuso has spoken of a “campaign organized by the Government”, which according to her seeks a “train crash of equals, where there must be winners and losers of stories.” “It is one more step towards civil war, the head-on clash against everything that we have been denouncing, by the way, from this government, for a long time. The President is going to the clash so that it seems that everything is facing equal blame,” he lamented.
Moncloa seeks the dichotomy to be, according to her, between “Sanchez’s populist democracy or the coup.” “That is why he wanted the prosecutor to emerge from this trial acquitted, either as innocent or as a victim, thereby disrespecting the work of the Supreme Court and the truth.”
At all times, Ayuso has spoken during his appearance of Spain as a kind of dictatorship. And he has said that “autocracies destroy the constitutional framework, the separation of powers and the institutions at the service of the leader from within and sow everything with anxiety, suspicion and revenge.” “It is the process through which they take us, especially since the cases of alleged corruption of the wife of the President of the Government came to light, with or without parliament, with or without budgets, without Senate, without Judiciary, without explanations,” he concluded.
Ayuso’s words come less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court made public the conviction of the State Attorney General, whom five of the seven judges of the criminal court consider guilty of having leaked the president’s partner’s email in which he acknowledged his tax fraud.
Source: www.eldiario.es
