Robles expresses his absolute confidence in the Supreme Court after the sentence condemning the attorney general was made public
The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has expressed her “total and absolute” confidence in the Supreme Court after the sentence condemning the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, was made public, and has stressed that if “all” institutions are not trusted, “democracy does not work.”
Robles has made these statements minutes after the Supreme Court has made public – 19 days after announcing the ruling – the sentence that supports the conviction of García Ortiz both in the leak to the press of the email with the admission of two crimes against the Treasury of Isabel Díaz Ayuso‘s partner and in the press release issued by the Prosecutor’s Office on March 14, 2024.
Although he has claimed not to know the terms of the ruling, Robles has considered that it would have been better if it had been made public sooner and has recalled that it is a ruling signed by five members of the court versus two.
“I deeply believe in the courts of justice and the obligation in a rule of law is to believe in the courts of justice,” Robles said in Congress before appearing before the Commission on Official Secrets, and then insisting on his “full confidence” in the Supreme Court.
The sentence imposes on García Ortiz two years of disqualification from the position of attorney general and 7,200 euros for a crime of revealing confidential data, and has the dissenting vote of two magistrates, who supported the acquittal. (Efe)
