PP prepares second attempt to question the Attorney General

Three weeks after the State Attorney General , Álvaro García Ortiz will face questioning from the PP in the Senate on Tuesday. For the first time since the high court charged him with allegedly leaking the email from the lawyer of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner in which Alberto González Amador acknowledged two crimes of tax fraud, the highest official in the public ministry will give explanations in parliament. García Ortiz is summoned at 4 p.

m. to the justice committee of the upper house "to report on his management at the head of the State Attorney General's Office" and to present the institution's report for 2023. Now, surely the popular party, who have been demanding his resignation for months, will take advantage of the opportunity to attack him for the case that the magi is investigating.



All groups in the Senate will be able to do so. Hours before the appearance in the Senate, the PP has already been warming up its engines by announcing that its spokesperson in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has raised the issue to the European Commission. The PP has sent a letter to the Commissioner for Justice, Michael McGrath, denouncing the situation of García Ortiz.

"It is clear that the permanence of the Attorney General could violate the principle of judicial independence," says the letter, which argues that the fact that he deleted messages from his mobile "demonstrates behaviour that obstructs justice." Montserrat also says that it is "even more serious" that the Spanish government "contributes to his protection and systematically attacks the work of judges." In turn, the PP also takes the opportunity to launch a new warning message about the Constitutional Court.

"All this occurs in a context in which we also have serious doubts about the actions of the TC," warns the MEP. García Ortiz and the Spanish government remain firm in their defence of their actions. In court, the Attorney General denied all the accusations and limited himself to answering his defence.

He ignored the questions that both the judge and the PP wanted to ask him, . It remains to be seen whether the Attorney General will agree to answer the PP's questions on Tuesday afternoon that are related to this case. Meanwhile, the investigating judge is moving ahead with new actions while the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) is studying the leak of García Ortiz's personal data from the Supreme Court.

On the one hand, Hurtado yesterday demanded that the Ministries of Justice and Finance hand over the old mobile phones that García Ortiz has handed over since March of last year, when the leak occurred. On the other hand, the magistrate has summoned two former officials from the Moncloa as witnesses. The investigating judge has summoned Pilar Sánchez Acera and Francesc Vallès on March 12.

Sánchez Acera, current secretary of organization of the Madrid socialists, is the one who sent the email of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's boyfriend to the former leader of the PSOE in Madrid, Juan Lobato, so that he could show him during a control session in the Madrid Assembly, before the screenshot was published in the media. Vallès, former secretary of state for Communication, was aware of the existence of the email before it was leaked, "The circle of corruption is surrounding Moncloa," said the number two of the PP, Cuca Gamarra..