He Senate approved this Wednesday a motion in which urges the Government to dismiss the State Attorney General, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, for “non-compliance” with his duties. The PP has asserted its absolute majority in the Upper House to move forward with the initiative and ask the Executive to appoint a new candidate. The motion has been approved with 144 votes in favor of the PP, compared to 97 against and 19 abstentions.
The match of Alberto Núñez Feijóo considers that García Ortiz has neglected his obligations as attorney general. “The breaches are not serious or repeated, “they are serious and repeated”, stated the popular senator Asunción Mayo in the Senate plenary session in which the motion was debated. Those of Feijóo disgrace García Ortiz that he has twice refused to prepare a report on the amnesty law at the request of the Senate, something for which the jurist argues that he lacks the competence because the text is still being processed by parliament.
Among the reasons for dismissing the attorney general, the PP also points out that the Supreme Court has “disauthorized” her on three occasions by annulling the appointment of her predecessor, Dolores Delgado, as prosecutor of the Military Chamber of the high court and recalls that The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) did not consider García Ortiz as an ideal candidate to occupy the position he currently occupies. “This is not a personal attack on Mr. García, as “He discredits himself with his actions and omissions.”the popular senator has ironically said.
The populars They hold the Government responsible for the discredit that, in their opinion, García Ortiz has brought to the State Attorney General’s Office and they accuse Pedro Sánchez of “manipulating, colonizing and discrediting all the institutions within his reach.” “From the PP we believe that it is time to recover the prestige of the institutions and we demand that the Government study and agree to the requested dismissal and, even better, that it take the opportunity to evaluate its own suitability and dismiss the entire Government, which are attorney general and Government at the same level of discredit,” he stated.
“I continue to be surprised by his ability to pervert politics and democracy and elevate everything to conflict”, the senator from Más Madrid, Carla Antonelli, has disfigured the popular ones. “What is in dispute here today is neither more nor less than the future of democracy and in Más Madrid we are clear on which side we are on, supporting the progressive Government, which democratizes the institutions and powers of the State, starting with the State itself. judicial power,” he stated, thus announcing his vote against and showing his support for Pedro Sánchez’s Executive.
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