Two rulings. In both cases, of great political, public, and institutional relevance. The first, among other things, concludes, as a “proven” fact, that it was the defendant, or a person from his immediate environment and with his knowledge, who delivered the email for publication. The second, announced yesterday, states that “In short, we do not know who exerted pressure or influence over those responsible for carrying out the task of twisting the law, nor in which specific acts the influence was materialized.”
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The first served to convict the then Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, for leaking an email about the case against the boyfriend of the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The second, to do the same with David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister. Could we talk about justice by approximation or low precision? We do not know exactly who it was, nor how… but something smells rotten. Always in the same political direction, of course.
The case against Sánchez, “the big brother,” started in May 2024, following a complaint by the infamous mercenary Manos Limpias, for the alleged crimes of accessing a job at the Diputación of Badajoz created to his measure, illicit enrichment, tax fraud, and work absenteeism (a suggestive idea for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the criminal route, in the new front he has opened in this last matter). Despite the weakness of the accusation, the judicial investigation continued, although, indeed, in a lucid precedent of the Peinado method, it explored other avenues. While at it. In this case, administrative misconduct and influence peddling.
As stated at the beginning, yesterday’s ruling dismisses the existence of evidence of that alleged influence peddling: it has not “been proven whether the decision [to create the position] was made at the request of [David Sánchez] or of a person or persons from the beneficiary’s environment (!oh the environment!) or if such decision was made “motu proprio” with the intention of favoring Mr. David Sánchez due to his family relationship with who was a prominent political figure and future secretary general of the PSOE, by re-election to the position.”
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It should be noted that on the dates when the position was created at the Diputación of Badajoz, October 10 and 11, 2016, Pedro Sánchez had just been ousted from the general secretaryship of the PSOE in a tumultuous Federal Council and a few days later, that “prominent political figure” would even cease to be a deputy in Congress. A bold and visionary bet then by the president of the Diputación of Badajoz.
The most relevant aspect of this ruling is that it points to a path for the response of the Madrid Court to the appeals against the decisions of Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, the investigator of the case against Begoña Gómez, the president’s wife, opened around the same time as that of the brother. Reasoning summarized in a Seneca idea: since we have come this far, let the time invested not have been in vain.
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