The Attorney General denounces a "perfectly orchestrated operation" by the Ayuso government to save her boyfriend.

MadridAbout to take the stand, the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, faces the charges before the Supreme Court. This Thursday, his defense, led by the State Attorney's Office, filed a brief again requesting his acquittal and denying that he committed the crime of revealing secrets for the leak of an email in which Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner admitted to tax fraud in order to reach an agreement. In his defense, the Attorney General argues that the Madrid president and her entourage devised a "perfectly orchestrated operation within the institutional apparatus of the Community of Madrid" to spread false information to protect the boyfriend of the leader of the Madrid People's Party (PP). A situation that led him, he adds in the brief, to request access to the email—which he denies leaking—to counter this campaign.

In the document, the prosecutor requests that Ayuso's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, and the main strategist for the Community of Madrid, be summoned as a witness in the trial. He accuses him of having designed this "alternative narrative" campaign to present Alberto González Amador as the "victim" of the "victim" he is about to be tried. On the other hand, one of García Ortiz's arguments to exonerate himself is to point to the lawyer for Ayuso's partner. According to the Attorney General, it was González Amador's own defense team that "unilaterally" broke the "supposed confidentiality" of the email when they sent it to a generic account of the prosecutor's office and to a state lawyer who had no connection to the case. This meant that, before it was published, "there were, just in the Prosecutor's Office, around 600 people who could have had access to it," the document states.

In parallel, the Supreme Court confirmed this Thursday 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.

"Caribbean soap opera"

While the Attorney General presented his brief to the Supreme Court, on the other side of the political spectrum, Ayuso responded by questioning the accusation against her partner. "The Moncloa Court is a Caribbean soap opera," she said at a breakfast briefing in Madrid, while reviewing all the cases affecting Pedro Sánchez's entourage, from his wife, Begoña Gómez—who will be informed that if she is tried, it will be by a jury—to the brother of the most senior prosecutor, David Sánchez, who sits in the State, and the former number three of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, who is in preventive detention.

However, Ayuso has tiptoed around the case that is pursuing her, such as that of her partner, despite the fact that this week the Madrid judge opened an oral trial against her boyfriend for tax fraud, accounting offenses, document falsification, and belonging to a criminal organization. In fact, her right-hand man, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, has once again attacked the justice system this week for that decision.

Along the same lines, Ayuso questioned the "credibility" of the accusation against her partner 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, as popular accusations, had requested it. 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 all areas with the aim of perpetuating itself in power. One of the objectives of remaining in Moncloa is, according to Ayuso, the desire "to muzzle the judiciary." "They will not stop until everyone around them is amnestied," she said.

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has spoken along the same lines, from Formentera to the Balearic Islands. The opposition leader also focused on denouncing the Begoña Gómez case, calling it "unacceptable in democratic Europe" that the wife of a prime minister is "about to be brought before a jury." He did not say the same about the fact that the partner of a regional president is going to trial. Feijóo accused Sánchez of clinging to power because "he needs the state apparatus to defend himself from the legal problems he has at home, in his government, and in his party."