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MADRID — Spain’s Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz went on trial Monday over allegations of leaking confidential information in an unprecedented and politically explosive case that looms large over Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’ s left-wing government.

It’s the first time in Spain’s modern history that a top prosecutor faces a criminal trial. The case is one of of several that have implicated people close to Sánchez.

García Ortiz is accused of having leaked an email to journalists from a lawyer who was representing the partner of Madrid’s influential regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso, one of Spain’s main opposition leaders. Díaz Ayuso’s partner, a businessman named Alberto Gonz

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