Sánchez forcefully defends the lawyer common and requires the resignation of Díaz Ayuso | Spain | EUROtoday

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has unwaveringly supported the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, after the Supreme Court opened prison proceedings in opposition to him. “He has done his job and he has done what he had to do: pursue the criminal and combat a hoax,” Sánchez argued after which demanded the resignation of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “The origin of the case,” Sánchez recalled, is that the chief of workers [Miguel Ángel Rodríguez] of the president, “at the time, the partner of a confessed criminal,” unfold a hoax in regards to the investigation that the Treasury had opened in opposition to him for defrauding taxes.

“When is the PP going to hold Díaz Ayuso accountable?” the president requested throughout an look earlier than the media after the European Council held this Thursday in Brussels. Sánchez was thus attempting to show across the demand of the Popular Party, which has demanded that García Ortiz depart his place or the Government put in place the required mechanisms to take away him. Sánchez has not stopped right here and has gone even additional, accusing Díaz Ayuso of, “allegedly, having indirectly benefited” from the enrichment of his companion, Alberto González Amador, with the sale of masks through the pandemic.

“We need Feijoo to ask his boss, Mrs. Díaz Ayuso, for responsibilities, which is resignation,” he demanded. “I hear the PP ask for responsibilities for the case of Mr. José Luis Ábalos and Mr. Koldo García, when we have been taking measures for eight months. And now they give me lessons. “Of what?” he shot.

“The situation of the State Attorney General also serves to remember the origin of this whole story,” added the president, making necessity a advantage, and underlining respect for the selections of the Supreme Court. Sánchez has highlighted that now it was time to do not forget that the case for which the lawyer common is accused relies on lacking data disseminated by Díaz Ayuso’s chief of workers, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. It said that the Prosecutor’s Office had provided an settlement to González Amador to supply him an settlement, when in actuality it had denounced him for defrauding the Treasury of greater than 350,000 euros. To counteract this, the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office revealed a press release explaining the true scenario, which led to the defendant’s grievance on the grounds that confidential information had been disseminated.

It shouldn’t be the primary time that the president calls for Feijóo to ask Díaz Ayuso to resign because of the tax fraud of his companion, who has pleaded responsible. Last March he advised the Galician politician to do it “even if it costs him his position like Casado”, in reference to the criticism of the earlier president of the PP, Pablo Casado, in opposition to the Madrid president, then for his brother’s enterprise dealings with the Community of Madrid through the pandemic.

Sánchez has additionally given explanations in his look after the European Council about one other of the judicial instances that encompass the Executive lately: the Koldo case. The president, after the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has indicated that the plot “is not understood” with out the participation of the previous Minister of Transport and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, has reiterated an argument that he has already put ahead this week: “I assume three responsibilities. The first is the forceful action, five days after some of the indications were made known. [en referencia a la suspensión de militancia de Ábalos y Koldo, y la reclamación del escaño de diputado al primero]”. The different two are to assist the work of the safety forces within the investigation and, lastly, to maneuver ahead with the legislature to maneuver ahead with the “sheet of social progress” offered for within the Government program.