The Attorney General denounces a "perfectly orchestrated operation" by the Ayuso government to save her boyfriend.
The Madrid president retorts that "the Moncloa Palace is a Caribbean soap opera" and questions the accusations against her partner.
Madrid"La Moncloa is a Caribbean soap opera." With this expression, she sought to draw blood from Isabel Díaz Ayuso against Pedro Sánchez for the latest judicial moves against her entourage. The Madrid president cited the confirmation of the prosecution of the brother of the Spanish prime minister and Judge Juan Carlos Peinado's decision to establish that if Sánchez's wife is tried for embezzlement, she will be held accountable. It will be done by a popular jury. The State Attorney General and Santos Cerdán were also mentioned. However, Ayuso has tiptoed around the case that is pursuing her, as is the case of her partner. This "normal week" for Sánchez, as the leader of the Madrid PP ironically described it, was also the week in which a Madrid judge opened a trial against Alberto González Amador for tax fraud, accounting offenses, document falsification, and membership in a criminal organization.
After days of attacks against this judge from her entourage, during a news breakfast this Thursday morning, Ayuso questioned the "credibility" of the accusation against her boyfriend and argued that accusing him of belonging to a criminal organization serves the interests of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and Más Madrid (Mass Madrid), which, she accuses. The Madrid president has denounced that the Community of Madrid is the victim of a campaign by the Spanish government to harm the region in every area with the aim of perpetuating its hold on power. One of the objectives of remaining in the Moncloa is, according to Ayuso, the desire "to muzzle the judiciary." "They will not stop until everyone in their entourage is amnestied," she said.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo from Formentera has spoken along the same lines. The PP leader focused on denouncing the Begoña Gómez case, calling it "unacceptable in democratic Europe" that the wife of a prime minister is "about to be put in the dock before a jury." He did not say the same about the fact that the partner of a regional president is going to trial. Feijóo, on the other hand, accused Sánchez of clinging to power because "he needs the state apparatus to defend himself from the legal problems he has at home, for his government, and for his party."
The operation of Madrid's "institutional apparatus"
On the other side of the political spectrum, one of the Madrid president's targets, the Attorney General, has submitted his defense brief to the Supreme Court. In the brief, Álvaro García Ortiz requests his acquittal and denies having committed the crime of revealing secretsThe case is directly related to that of Ayuso's boyfriend—the leak under investigation is of an email from González Amador in which he admitted to the crime to reach an agreement with the public prosecutor's office—and the attorney general's brief presents a narrative that directly contradicts that of the Madrid president. According to García Ortiz, what happened was a "perfectly orchestrated operation from the institutional apparatus of the Community of Madrid" to spread false information to protect the boyfriend of the leader of the Madrid PP.
The attorney general justifies having requested access to said email—which he denies having leaked—in order to counter this campaign and demands that Ayuso's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, be summoned as a witness in the trial, accusing him of having designed this "alternative narrative" strategy to present González to Moncloa. Rodríguez has been in the spotlight again this week. for the attacks he has directed at the judge The Supreme Court has opened oral proceedings against the Madrid president's partner. This Thursday, the Supreme Court also confirmed that the court that will try García Ortiz will have a conservative majority. It will be composed of the president of the Second Chamber, Andrés Martínez Arrieta, and judges Manuel Marchena, Antonio Moral, Juan Ramón Berdugo, Carmen Lamela, Susana Polo, and Ana Ferrer.
Sánchez, "suicidal" against Israel
Ayuso also reaffirmed her pro-Israeli stance and criticized Sánchez's latest moves internationally. According to the Madrid president, the Spanish government's strategy is "suicidal." "By trying to isolate Israel, Spain is left alone," she denounced. Ayuso called the announcement of the dispatch of a naval ship to protect the flotilla heading for Gaza "a sign of a serious threat to the security of the Palestinian people."tezanada", referring to the president of the CIS, José Félix Tezanos. The president of Madrid has avoided assessing Felipe VI's speech before the UN and has expressed her government's "absolute support" for the monarchy, although she has accused the left of "always" seeking to "discredit" the figure of the king. After breakfast, she reports on the Spanish government meeting with the chargé d'affaires of the Israeli embassy in Spain, Dana Erlich, whom the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has been called several times in recent weeks for complaining about the Israeli government's attacks against Sánchez and members of his executive.