Overview

• Judge Ángel Hurtado has ordered the prosecution and other parties to submit responses within three days to the APIF’s petition to provisionally suspend Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz pending oral trial.
• The APIF filed its request after the Supreme Court’s Appeals Chamber confirmed Ortiz’s processing for allegedly coordinating the leak of a confidential tax investigation into Alberto González Amador.
• The same appeals chamber dropped charges against Madrid Provincial Prosecutor Pilar Rodríguez, concluding there was insufficient evidence of her involvement in the leak.
• President Pedro Sánchez and his government have publicly defended García Ortiz and rejected opposition and judicial calls for his resignation.
• Debates over Spain’s fiscal statute have intensified as critics argue that while subordinate prosecutors must resign if processed, the attorney general faces no such automatic suspension.