If there is an image that describes the situation in the Spain of Pedro Sánchez, there is no better snapshot than the one recorded on Wednesday October 30, 2024, when the members of the Civil Guard, By order of the Supreme Court, they entered the office of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, to confiscate his electronic devices, including his cell phone. García Ortiz is under investigation for a crime of revelation of secrets in the case of the boyfriend of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid. In other words, anyone called upon by virtue of their position to guarantee the principle of legality could, according to the Supreme Court, violate the principle of legality, which is as much pass the law through the lining of the toga. In any more or less clean democracy, this would be a reason for him to be removed from office, but Spanish democracy, with Sánchez, is a disaster.
The agents must analyze email accounts of the attorney general – including his personal Gmail email address – to determine whether there is evidence that he forwarded emails from the attorney general’s Alberto Gonzalez Amador with the Office of the Prosecutor to relevant media. The High Court asked Álvaro García Ortiz appoint a lawyer in the trial opened against him and it is not excluded that he could rely on the public prosecutor’s office to defend your interests and not have to pay a private lawyer out of your own pocket.
This is not without risk, since the latest actions of this once prestigious institution have ended in resounding failures, the most recent being the complaint filed on behalf of the President of the Government against Judge Peinado. What would happen if the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid accused the prosecution – Pedro Sánchez, to understand us – of acting recklessly and trying to disrupt the courts. García Ortiz will know it, but the withdrawal of the public prosecutor’s office, in the current procedural circumstances, is a high-risk exercise. This is Sánchez’s Spain: escape.
