Overview
- On October 8, the Asociación Profesional e Independiente de Fiscales filed a complaint with the Inspección Fiscal contesting who will represent the Ministerio Público at the Supreme Court trial of Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz.
- APIF alleges the appointment was neither made by the attorney general nor reported to the Consejo Fiscal, which it says contravenes the Estatuto Orgánico’s Article 26.
- The group questions why a prosecutor from the Supreme Court’s Penal Section was not assigned and objects that a judge’s request to the Inspection Service was handled by its lieutenant rather than the chief.
- Representatives of the Unión Progresista de Fiscales on the Consejo Fiscal counter that the assignment followed standard procedure, citing a September 12 request by the teniente fiscal for a second prosecutor and a September 16 circulation to members via the Permanent Commission.
- Francisco Javier Montero is expected to assist teniente fiscal María Ángeles Sánchez Conde at the hearing, and the case concerns an alleged leak of private data about the partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso with the oral hearing slated for November.