The trial at the Supreme Court against the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, for an alleged crime of revealing secrets, with a request for years in prison, is a good reflection of where a war for power ends up in which the nationalist right has no problem demolishing the institutions of the State to save it, as they say.
Without consistent evidence, beyond the accusing finger of a spin doctor Known for his lack of scruples and respect for the truth—and who also admits that he bases his actions solely on his perceptions—with witnesses bordering on the farcical, the Attorney General's trial has all the hallmarks of a political trial: in the style of those suffered by the main civilian and political leaders of the Process. But alas, a branch of the State that is at the service of the aforementioned communist dictatorship, of course. To put the enemies of the fatherland in the dock (to make them go forwards(In the filthy terminology of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez) this has become an almost mechanical practice for a right wing that has long since grown accustomed to playing the game with the trump card of a judicial leadership that is biased in its favor. The erosion this represents for the rule of law and, in this case, for what is known as the institutional edifice of the state, is significant. And the right wing that plays this game would do well to ask itself whether the institutional deterioration might ultimately backfire, even if it were to reach its coveted Moncloa Palace (a possibility, it must be said, that now seems more distant than it did, for example, two months ago).
Overshadowing the trial is the shadow of the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a client of Rodríguez's consulting services and the partner of the party who presents herself not as an injured party, but as a detached victim who hesitates like Hamlet. between exile and suicideUltimately, this is a test to see how far the power of Trumpism extends in Madrid, now that Trumpism is beginning to show signs of decline, as is often the case with populist movements (except for Milei, another saint of Ayuso's supporters who, it must be acknowledged, is currently holding firm in his delusional, death-dealing rhetoric). Ayuso is the latest iteration of the PP's appropriation of institutions: if they can't be ours, we'll destroy them. It's the same old story, but even dirtier.
Completing the picture is former head of state Juan Carlos de Borbón, who has a turbulent past as a tax evader and a present as a luxury resident in the not-so-communist dictatorship of the United Arab Emirates. Nevertheless, he writes a book (to portray himself as a victim, as one would expect) in which he goes so far as to present himself as "the only Spaniard who doesn't receive a pension after forty years of service." This also sends shivers down the spine of the State that the Crown claims to represent and defend.
