The Spanish government is processing a first pardon request for the former attorney general

Barcelona / MadridTwo months after the Supreme Court disqualified the then Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García OrtizFor the crime of disclosing classified information, the Spanish government is processing its first request for a full pardon. According to reports The Country And the Spanish government has confirmed that the Ministry of Justice has already asked the Supreme Court to issue a report on the pardon after it was requested by two private individuals. This is the first pardon request since García Ortiz was convicted for leaking the email in which Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner, Alberto González Amador, admitted to tax fraud. It's worth remembering that, despite the outcome of the case, Pedro Sánchez's government and the president himself have consistently stood by the former Attorney General. The Spanish government maintains that García Ortiz is innocent, even though he has been convicted, and has even questioned the procedure behind what it considers an "unjust" conviction. The Public Prosecutor's Office, in fact, has already has asked that the conviction be overturned And this Tuesday, more than 150 legal experts, including former Supreme Court magistrates such as José Antonio Martín Pallín and former National Court judge Baltasar Garzón, signed a manifesto in which they criticize the sentence "Disturbing" regarding Ortiz. For the moment, the Spanish government has reacted cautiously to the pardon request from two individuals. "We'll see what the Supreme Court says in this case, as they are the ones who have been asked for information [about the pardon]," stated the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres.

Although Sánchez's administration is avoiding anticipating events, the Supreme Court's opinion is not binding. The high court opposed pardons for the leaders of the Catalan independence movement, and the Council of Ministers granted them anyway. Should the Supreme Court also oppose granting a pardon to García Ortiz, the Spanish government can make its decision regardless of the Supreme Court's report.

Ayuso criticizes it

Ayuso, the political antagonist of Sánchez and the former Attorney General, was quick to criticize the possible pardon. "With its intention to pardon him, [the Spanish government] is sending a message to the Supreme Court and everyone: no one is safe from us, and anyone who tries will be annihilated," the Madrid president said this Wednesday at a press conference. For Ayuso, this demonstrates once again that Sánchez has placed himself "openly above the law." Along the same lines, the partner of the Madrid PP leader, González Amador, requested on Monday the expulsion of García Ortiz from the judiciary following his disqualification. His defense, in fact, asked to overturn the decree of December 23rd by which the current Attorney General, Teresa Peramato, agreed to reinstate her predecessor to the Public Prosecutor's Office with his assignment to the social section of the Supreme Court.