“It is very serious,” they warn at Moncloa regarding the ruling by the Provincial Court of Badajoz that this Tuesday sentenced David Sánchez, the brother of the Prime Minister, to nine years of disqualification for a crime of administrative prevarication. And a second “very dangerous precedent for our democracy,” in their opinion, following the Supreme Court ruling that also disqualified the former Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, from holding office. “It is outrageous to convict an innocent person without evidence,” they warn in the Government.
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The spokesperson minister, Elma Saiz, has trusted in any case that in higher instances, in this case the Supreme Court to which the sentence will be appealed, “David Sánchez’s innocence will be confirmed.” And despite expressing the Government’s respect for the judicial decision, she showed her absolute disagreement, as she assured that during the trial all the accusations were “dismantled.”
The Government spokesperson thus assured that the “only origin” of the case against David Sánchez, based on a complaint from the far-right organization Manos Limpias, was “to harm the Prime Minister through his family environment.” And it could be a disturbing precedent for the case being investigated by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado against the Prime Minister’s wife, Begoña Gómez, which Elma Saiz directly labeled as “political harassment.”
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Puente warns that “the seams of our institutions are being stretched with the sole purpose of overthrowing a government due to the inability to do so at the polls”
More forceful in any case, as is his custom, has been the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who denounced the operation to overthrow the Government. “This era will be studied in history books as the one in which the seams of our most essential institutions were stretched with the sole purpose of overthrowing a government due to the inability to do so at the polls,” Puente criticized.
At Moncloa they insist that in the trial at the Badajoz Court against David Sánchez “it was very clear and evident that all the accusations were dismantled.” “There is neither evidence nor do the accusations hold,” they denounce. And, therefore, they emphasize that it is “an unjust conviction without evidence.” “It is a political case to harass and persecute the Prime Minister’s family,” they warn.
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