García Ortiz: “If I am here as State Attorney General, it is because I believe in justice and in the institutions that make it up”
The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, prosecuted for the alleged filtration of an email linked to Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s couple, has defended this Friday their participation in the opening of the judicial year, questioned by the most conservative sector of the Judiciary and the judicial and fiscal careers. “I am fully aware of the unique circumstances of my intervention,” said García Ortiz as soon as he started his speech in the most solemn act of the judicial course, chaired by the king. “If I am here as State Attorney General, it is because I believe in justice and in the institutions that comprise it. I believe in the rule of law, in the independence of the Judiciary, in the principles of legality and impartiality. And, of course, also in the truth,” said the head of the Public Ministry.
The presence and intervention of García Ortiz at the ceremony that hosts the Supreme Court has been strongly criticized by the vowels of the General Council of the Judiciary proposed by the PP and the majority associations of judges and prosecutors. The Head of the Public Ministry, although he has not expressly alluded to these criticisms, has indirectly countered them by remembering that this Friday is a “solemn and regulated act chaired by the head of the State” and that their participation is provided for in the Law (Article 181 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary (LOPJ).
“I respect all the opinions that can be manifested on the subject,” said García Ortiz, who has also made “a humble call to claim the utmost respect for the function of the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office, to the work of all prosecutors.” “I firmly believe in the Fiscal Ministry as the strong institution that is. Solid, reliable, that vertebra a country and that guarantees compliance with the law. An energetic, active institution, which does not succumb to the onslaught or attacks of the criminals,” said the head of the Public Ministry, processed by the alleged filtration of an email in which the lawyer of the businessman Alberto González Amador, a couple of Isabel Díaz, Two fiscal crimes and proposed to the Prosecutor’s Office a pact to avoid entering prison.
