Ayuso's boyfriend will testify over photos of journalists disseminated by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

The circle of Isabel Díaz Ayuso returns to court this Tuesday. Alberto González Amador, partner of the Madrid president, is summoned as a witness in the case opened against Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso's chief of staff, for the targeting of two 'El País' journalists who were investigating the businessman's tax fraud case and the apartment he shares with the PP leader in Madrid's Chamberí neighborhood.

The court wants to clarify if it was González Amador who sent Rodríguez the photograph of the two reporters which later circulated among media outlets along with a false message accusing them of harassing neighbors of the Madrid president, including minors. The case investigates Ayuso's strongman for an alleged crime of disclosure of secrets, after the Provincial Court of Madrid ordered the opening of criminal proceedings.

The events date back to March 2024, in the midst of the Madrid government's offensive against information about González Amador. Days earlier it had been revealed that the Prosecutor's Office accused him of defrauding more than 350,000 euros from the Treasury through false invoices and shell companies. From then on, Ayuso and her political circle closed ranks with the businessman, attacking the Tax Agency, the Prosecutor's Office, and the media that published details of the case.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez's version

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez testified as an investigated party last May. At the courthouse doors, he first said that the photo had reached him from an "angry neighbor." Already before the judge, he pointed to González Amador as the person who sent him the image. He then tried to correct himself before journalists with a "I expressed myself poorly" and denied that the Police had given him anything.

This point is key to the investigation. The two 'El País' reporters had been previously identified by the Madrid president's bodyguards. The judge wants to know how the image and the identity of the journalists reached Ayuso's chief of staff and if data obtained through the president's security detail was used.

Rodríguez also admitted that he does not keep the messages with which he disseminated the image and the hoax. Now González Amador's statement must serve to verify if he confirms Ayuso's chief of staff's version or if it opens new contradictions in a case that has already placed the communication machinery of Puerta del Sol under judicial scrutiny.

The case comes amid an accumulation of judicial fronts surrounding Ayuso's partner. González Amador remains under investigation for tax fraud and document forgery, while the Madrid government insists on presenting him as a victim of a political operation. This Tuesday he appears as a witness, obliged to tell the truth, in a different investigation but born from the same episode: the response of Ayuso's team to the information about her partner's alleged tax fraud.