Go ahead

“Our obligation is to put an end to this Government and we are going to do it with all the means at our disposal, and if the means are judicial we are also going to do it.” The words are from Miguel Tellado, the PP spokesperson, last Friday on EsRadio, following Aznar’s old slogan, “he who can do, let him do.” Before, at least, they hid it and when they said “the Prosecutor’s Office will fix this for you,” they did it in private. Now they are not hiding because the end justifies the means and the end is not justice, it is to bring down the Government. The media right publishes the hoax, the political right takes it to court, the judicial right admits it to processing and now we have meat for the grinder. The crusher, which would say MAR. Thus the PP has taken the PSOE to the National Court for alleged illegal financing and the ultras have taken the president’s wife to court for influence peddling. The first case has already been rejected as “incoherent”, the second is a headline-making machine. They don’t care if it comes to nothing. Slander that something remains.

The case of the Ayuso couple repeats the paradigm with the aggravating circumstance that here corruption affects the Madrid president, but they turn it around so that it seems that it is the Government that is affected. These are the facts, you judge. Ayuso’s boyfriend suddenly became a millionaire as a commission agent in the purchase of masks with which he earned two million euros, of which he defrauded the Treasury of 350,000 euros. Part of those masks were sold to the Community that she directs, and he worked as a consultant for Quirón, the private health company that contracts the most with Ayuso. She lives in the 380-meter luxury penthouse that he bought with that money. ElDiario.es publishes it, Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, threatens the media with “shredding it” and leaks the hoax that some “hooded journalists” from the newspaper had assaulted Ayuso’s apartment. Related media publish it. It’s all a lie.

Ayuso’s boyfriend acknowledges the fraud in an email to the Prosecutor’s Office in which he requests an agreement. MAR spread the response email from the Prosecutor’s Office and the hoax that it had been the one that had offered the agreement due to “pressure from above.” El Mundo, Libertad Digital, El Debate and Voz Pópuli publish it. La Ser and ElDiario.es deny it that same night by publishing the first self-incriminating email from Ayuso’s partner, but except for El Mundo, no media outlet rectifies. The next morning, with all the information already published, the Prosecutor’s Office issues a statement, at the request of the State Attorney General, to finish dismantling the hoax. Ayuso’s partner sues the Prosecutor’s Office for revealing secrets, the complaint is admitted for processing by the Superior Court of Justice, but only includes the attorney general and the prosecutor Pilar Rodríguez, not the senior prosecutor of Madrid who sent her to the press, Almudena Lastra, the same one who refused to investigate Ayuso for the deaths in the residences. How curious. Nor to MAR, which was the first to leak emails. Curious, curious.

The case goes to the Supreme Court because the attorney general is dismissed and the Supreme Court opens for the first time in democracy a case against the attorney general, who has not yet been charged, as the media repeats; The Supreme Court has only declared itself competent in the case. Another hoax. The TS appoints to judge the case the judge who refused to call “M. Rajoy” to testify in the Gürtel trial and accuse the PP for profit. Also curious. The Supreme Court rules out that the Prosecutor’s Office statement is the subject of a crime, but says that the leak of emails be investigated. These emails do not violate the right of defense or the privacy of Ayuso’s partner because the agreements are not part of the confidential investigation nor is his recognition of guilt sufficient to convict him, according to the Spanish Criminal Procedure Law. Around 50 people had access to these emails, including prosecutors, officials, journalists and the MAR itself. There is no evidence or indication that it was leaked by the attorney general, who denies being the author of the leak, and the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence says that “suspicion or conjecture” is not enough to open a case. Here it has been enough. Curious. All very curious. So curious that it may happen that the case against Ayuso’s boyfriend ends up being declared null and void thanks to these maneuvers.

So the Madrid president’s partner recognizes two tax crimes from which she benefits, her chief of staff threatens the press, leaks emails and fabricates lies, but the one who ends up in a court case is the attorney general due to a leak. of which there is no evidence, for which the judge who refused to investigate the PP and Rajoy for Gürtel will investigate him. The one who has to resign is the attorney general even though he is not even charged. We already know how those who dare to face the Godmother end up. The MAR itself announced it one day before it became public that a case was going to be opened against the attorney general: “it’s going ahead.” They don’t hide. They do not hide that there is a judicial war because it works for them. Because they can do it. Because no one asks them to account. Because his voters applaud him. Because there are no controls. Because they have the majority of political, media and judicial means in their hands. Because they can twist the articles of the laws and the press to justify whatever they want. Anything goes. End the Government by any means? Go ahead.

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