*Ayuso denounces hunt from the highest levels of the judiciary
*State Attorney General has not been the only one to be tainted
*Image of the judiciary has deteriorated over the past few years
*Biases and systemic weaknesses of the judiciary could be a cause of these anomalies
*Consequences are concentrated on those who have reported the case
*State Attorney General has not been the only one to be tainted
*Image of the judiciary has deteriorated over the past few years
*Biases and systemic weaknesses of the judiciary could be a cause of these anomalies
*Consequences are concentrated on those who have reported the case
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00:00Now in Spain, the case of the alleged fraud of the partner of President of Madrid, Isabel
00:05DĂaz Ayuso, has unleashed a political and judicial crisis with the indictment of the
00:10Attorney General of the state for the first time in a democracy.
00:14Our correspondent, Alvaro Fraga, with the details.
00:18The alleged fraud of more than 350,000 euros of Alberto GonzĂĄlez, partner of DĂaz Ayuso,
00:25has resulted in the investigation of the state attorney general for the first time in democracy.
00:29And for the leak of some e-mails between the lawyer of Alberto GonzĂĄlez and the public
00:34prosecutor's office, where they recognized the crime.
00:38What is happening in Spain is extremely serious.
00:42What we have learned these days is that there has been a state operation against a political
00:46adversary.
00:48This is unbecoming of a member country of the European Union.
00:53Ayuso denounces a hunt from the highest magistracies.
00:58Meanwhile, SĂĄnchez defends the performance of the state attorney general, Alvaro GarcĂa
01:03Ortiz, and points the finger at the Popular Party.
01:08We respect the decision of the Supreme Court, but we support the action of the attorney
01:13general of the state.
01:15When is the Popular Party going to ask for explanations and demand accountability from
01:20the president of the community of Madrid, who is the partner of a confessed criminal?
01:27The state attorney general has not been the only one to be tainted.
01:34The former leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in Madrid, Juan Lobato, resigned
01:39because of the leak and the party's loss of confidence on the eve of its 41st Federal
01:45Congress of the Socialist Party.
01:49What happens in Madrid, for those who are listening to us, the power is concentrated
01:53in Madrid, the economic power, the financial power, the media power too, the big transnational
01:59capitals, so if you put all the power in Madrid and give it self-government, you turn its
02:04president into the president of power.
02:11An analysis that emphasizes how political, media and judicial operators act, and that
02:17the state attorney general also hinted at.
02:21We prosecutors handle very sensitive material, and we also handle a lot of information, a
02:28lot of information.
02:29I assure you that if I wanted to harm a certain political spectrum, I have plenty of information,
02:35which of course I will never use either to insinuate or to leak or to say anything.
02:44In recent years, the image of the judiciary has deteriorated precisely because of political
02:49interference and operations.
02:53If you touch financial powers or the partner of the president of the power you are going
02:57to have a cascading response from all the powers, also within the judicial ecosystem
03:02where some judicial operators act as political agents.
03:06It is the state attorney general himself who ends up being indicted.
03:10This is not a minor thing, this reveals that in Madrid there is more concentrated power
03:14than in the government of Spain and in the state institutions.
03:22According to the analyst, the biases and systemic weaknesses of the judiciary in Spain could
03:27be a cause of these anomalies.
03:31In Spain there are biases in the resolutions of the judiciary and it has to do with how
03:35justice is structured in its own access, in its own class composition, in its own gender
03:42and its tradition inherited from even before democracy and the moment of the democratic
03:46transition.
03:47In the midst of this political and judicial storm whose end is still uncertain, Ayuso
03:56remains in her post.
03:58The consequences are concentrated on those who have denounced the case, and Madrid remains
04:03the epicenter where much more than regional policies are decided.