The Supreme Court suspended Garc\u00eda Ortiz from office for two years. It ordered him to pay a fine of \u20ac7,300 and compensation of \u20ac10,000 to Alberto Gonz\u00e1lez Amador, the partner of Isabel Ayuso, the conservative head of Madrid\u2019s regional government.<\/p>\n
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Ayuso, who has been tipped for a national leadership role, and her conservative Popular Party (PP) accused Garcia Ortiz of leaking case files about her partner to damage her. They claimed that he sent an email to journalists with personal information about Gonz\u00e1lez Amador when the businessman was under investigation for alleged tax fraud. That tax inquiry remains open.<\/p>\n
The attorney-general denied wrongdoing. He said that his decision to step down came from \u201cprofound respect\u201d for judicial rulings.<\/p>\n
After the verdict Ayuso said on X: \u201cUsing the apparatus of the state to attack a political rival is characteristic of dictatorships.\u201d <\/p>\n
Oscar Lopez, the digital transformation minister, who is close to S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, said: \u201cIn this country there are judges \u2026 who truly believe that the state is at risk, that the country is falling apart, and that they have to save the homeland and deny the legitimacy of this government.\u201d <\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez insisted on Garc\u00eda Ortiz\u2019s innocence and suggested that the ruling of the conservative-majority Supreme Court would go to appeal in the left-majority constitutional court. The government\u2019s main coalition partner, the populist left-wing Sumar platform, called it a \u201cjudicial coup d\u2019etat\u201d. <\/p>\n