The government offensive against Judge Hurtado heats the last control session of the course | Spain

The perfect storm against the Government does not seem to love at any time. The Executive believed having achieved a little respite with what he considers a PP prick in the demonstration in Madrid on Sunday, But quickly the judge of Supreme Angel Hurtado returned the political agenda to the courts with a decision that puts a lot of pressure on the government, when puttingThe edge of the bench to the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz. Before what he considers a clear harassment of some judges – Minister Óscar Puente has said that they are “the true opposition” – and in this case of the prosecutor a Lawfare Very clear, even if no one is encouraged to pronounce the word in public, the government has decided Go out the offensive against a Supreme Judge, Something I had not done so far, and thus heat engines before a key moment on Wednesday: the last control session of the season. There will be no more in June for several trips of the president. And in July, although there will be some full and at least one extensive appearance of Sánchez, there are no control sessions. So it will be one of the latest opportunities until September so that the opposition tries to take advantage of the situation, in which the Executive does not raise head from the blackout of April 27, to wear out the president.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo will try to squeeze the president with the scandals of recent weeks and the last decision on Wednesday, which closes the perfect storm, with The entrance of the UCO into José Luis Ábalos in Valencia After finding indications of the collection of bites by public works amaño. The researchers claim to have found conversations in which they allegedly admitted to having received commissions.

About Ábalos, the government defense line is clearer: they asked for the act and began the expulsion process less than a week after the arrest of Koldo García. With The Leire Díez case, the ex -militant of the PSOE who maneuvered against the UCO dome, Everything has been much more diffuse, the slowest reaction and the practically non -existent explanations. Sánchez and his team were on Tuesday, finalizing the response messages in the control session, but everything indicates that the president will try to turn on tiptoe especially for the case of Díez, an issue on which he has not yet said a word because he has been answering any questions from the press. Feijóo’s question is very open – does Spain deserve to have a government president like you? – But it is certain that he will try to exploit all recent scandals.

In La Moncloa they believe that Sanchez should not speak of Díez, that he is not even a member of the PSOE, because it would be to give him an entity that they believe he does not have, since it is not a plumber nor of anyone important within the party, as it was Ábalos, and their maneuvers were not done in the name of the direction or of Sánchez, so they should not give explanations about something that does not concern him. But Feijóo and Abascal will insist on trying to answer, so Sánchez was on Tuesday by finalizing his answer, but with an idea similar to the last control session he attended, then with the scandal for his WhatsApp messages with Ábalos in the foreground, in which he said that while the opposition is dedicated to “La Casquería” the government is with the management and good economic data.

The executive is desperate because it fails that the good economic news of the last weeks, with records of record employment, levels of the stock market that were not seen in 17 years, record benefits of companies and a tourist season also unprecedented, are completely overshadowed by judicial and media controversies. Sánchez will try to talk about housing, as he did at the presidents conference, but the opposition will try to take him to his land.

What has already decided with absolute clarity The government is to jump without possible reverse in its offensive to transfer the idea, which according to the surveys has more and more acceptance among progressive voters, that a group of judges is working to the limit of the legal, bordering the prevarication, to harm the government and even to try to knock it down. In private, the ministers speak openly of this dismissal attempt of some judges and repeat the phrase of José María Aznar « the one who can do » as if it were the origin of this entire operation. In public the forms are taken care of something else, but the unpublished jump has already been made so far of directly criticizing a self of the Supreme Court from the press conference of the Council of Ministers, which gives an idea of ​​how far the government’s anger arrives and above all its conviction that an important part of the citizenship is as outraged as them by the order of the Hurtado Judge. « It is evident that at this point some judges are doing difficult things to understand, » said Pilar Alegría, the spokeswoman, from that table, which moves the most thoughtful opinion of the Government on current affairs.

The socialist sector also has the support of all its partners in this matter. In fact some, as Podemos, ask him to be more forceful with the reforms to prevent judges from making these types of decisions they consider arbitrary. The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, was very sharp in her support to the prosecutor, who supports « absolute, complete and radical. » Díaz was very hard with the judge, in line with many jurists after reading the car. “I dedicate myself to law in my private life. I have not seen a similar car as what we are knowing these days. Therefore, I show my perplexity for what we are attending and what we of course have to do is respect the result of the polls on July 23. And I say to the factual powers and for the Popular Party that is in the opposition, it has a tool in democracy at its disposal that is called a provision that is already called. to torpedo all institutions in our country, ”he said in the corridors of the Senate.

Another Minister of Add, Mónica García, of Health, also defended the prosecutor and above all that she does not resign despite sitting on the bench because she is being accused without evidence. Garcia recalled the case of Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, who resigned from an investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office that was later at all. Costa has been politically rehabilitated and now presides over nothing less than the European Council, the meeting of prime ministers in Brussels, but its departure from the government caused a strong crisis in the left and the PSP did not solve the succession well, and it went from having an absolute majority to lose the elections and now has come down again, so the leader who happened at the expense has resigned. That is, for Garcia, a proof that if he is given to an unfair accusation, political consequences can be irreparable. Despite the pressure, the government insists that if no proof appears that the attorney general was the filter, and believe that the car demonstrates that the judge has not found any, will maintain support for Garcia “until the end”, this is even a conviction that they see totally impossible.