The 2nd (Criminal) Chamber of the Supreme Court has opened a case against the State Attorney General, Alvaro García Ortiz, for an alleged crime of revealing secrets provided for and punished in art. 417 of the Penal Code. There are no precedents in our history for such an event. The first reaction of Álvaro García Ortiz and the government has been to defend his actions and announce that he remains in office. If this were the case, we would find ourselves facing a reputational crisis of immense importance in terms of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The art. 124.1 of the Constitution establishes that: “The mission of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is to promote the action of justice in defense of legality, the rights of citizens and the public interest protected by law (…).” We will be told how a State Attorney General attends to that constitutional mandate under such conditions. No, the only reasonable solution is none other than the resignation of the State Attorney General. At least it will prevent institutional deterioration from worsening. Naturally, Álvaro García Ortiz enjoys, like any citizen, the right to presumption of innocence, but the institutional degradation that remaining in office would entail would be unbearable.
His political weakness was discernible from day one; there is the legislative work perpetrated: an infamous amnesty lawpure political corruption to obtain the seven Junts votes in the investiture
The crisis now of the Public Prosecutor’s Office adds to a scenario that overwhelms the Governmentfrom the perspective that it is now impossible to know what news the near future will bring us. If we already had the case Koldothe president’s wife investigated in an Investigative Court, his own brother investigated in another Investigative Court, now the UCO report has revealed such a quantity of news about José Luis Ábaloswhich has led the anti-corruption prosecutor himself to request that a case be instructed against the former minister before the Supreme Court due to his capacity. At the same time, we are informed that approximately 60% of personal devices – phones, etc. – remain to be disposed of. Who knows what can come out of all that. Or Víctor de Aldama, tireless achiever, now in preventive detention for a million-dollar hydrocarbon fraud.
When this point is reached, still provisional, what is not known is what else may appear. This is the point that makes a legislature truly unbearable. It has not been even a year since Mr. Sánchez was inaugurated as President of the Government thanks to the seven votes of Junts. His political weakness was discernible from day one; there is the legislative work perpetrated: an infamous amnesty lawpure political corruption to obtain the seven Junts votes in the investiture, or shorten the prison sentences of murderous terrorists, in another painful case of political corruption that obeys the need for Bildu votes.
The night of “We are more”
Looking back, we remember that night of July 23 last year – the day of the general elections – when the masses gathered at the doors of Ferraz shouted “We are more.” Incomprehensible cry because the PSOE had lost the general elections that the Popular Party. But also an unprecedented cry: who did they count on to say “We are more”? With the Catalan coup plotters of CKD and Togetherwith the Bolivarians of Canwith the heirs of terrorism grouped in Bildu, in short, with the most undesirable in each house?
No, there were no more and it chills that the opposite was thought and shouted.
decades ago, Felipe González I used to say that you always have to know whether one is the problem or the solution. That reflection is vibrantly relevant today. It is Mr. Sánchez who has to consider whether it is the problem or the solution; if it is capable of leading Spain to an institutional deterioration close to irreparable, to a government that is there but does not govern as a consequence of its infinite weakness, to a government exhausted by the cases of corruption that arise here and there – regardless of its judicial becoming. If Mr. Sánchez is still considered the solution to this ill-fated legislaturenot only will it be that they have not understood anything, but the Spanish people will pay a high price in terms of impoverishment, in public services that do not work, in a youth that is left behind, in a deindustrialization that prospers, in an unbearable crisis of housing, in an immigration crisis that is clearly advancing, in so many other things.
“Let Spain work”
When this point has been reached, it is time to know how to stop, that this is not enough and that the only viable solution is none other than calling the Spanish people to general elections.
With one objective: Felipe González also said it in the triumphant PSOE campaign in 1982 with the motto: “for the change”. And when asked what “For change” meant, he always answered that change was “that Spain works”. That, more than forty years later, must continue to be the destiny, “for Spain to work.” It is the task that must govern the action of every ruler. And when it becomes clear that this is not happening in any way at present, early elections, calling Spaniards to the polls, are the only solution to resolve infinite nonsense.
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