The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has warned the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that if he does not give explanations about the relationships of his wife, Begoña Gómez, with Air Europa before the airline’s rescue, there will be a parliamentary investigation and, “if necessary”, also judicial in this regard.
The PP has already taken this file to the Office of Conflicts of Interest (OCI) upon understanding that Sánchez should have recused himself when his Council of Ministers made the decision to rescue the airline, with which his wife, Begoña Gómez, had professional contacts such as responsible for a business institute.
The PP wants to exhaust all avenues to put Sánchez on the ropes for this matter and will appeal the decision of the OCI, dependent on the Secretary of State for Public Function, which resolved that the type of relationship between Gómez and Air Europa did not fall within of the cases of conflict of interest, since she was not a director of the company that received aid from the State.
The letter with the response from the OCI did not arrive until yesterday at the PP headquarters, on Génova Street, and now the party is studying exhausting the administrative route with an appeal, since it assumes that the parliamentary investigation will occur “yes.” or yes” and leaves the door open to studying even criminal proceedings. “We want to know if there have been more conversations,” say PP sources.
In this context, the Government control session this Wednesday has once again been the scene of a new scuffle between Sánchez and Feijóo, who has announced that there will be “a specific investigation” into this case. “Parliamentary, surely, and judicial too if necessary,” he warned.
The PP’s strategy, in this sense, is to extend suspicions about “the corruption that stalks the PSOE” to the president’s own house, who has defended himself by once again asking Feijóo to demand the resignation of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, due to the crimes of tax fraud and document falsification of which her partner is accused.
The socialists understand that the PP is trying with this offensive to “muddy up” the political environment because Feijóo “does not dare” to ask Ayuso for explanations, while the popular ones see Sánchez as “nervous” and reproach him for trying to “slap the case” to the issue of “putting on the fan desperately.”
“Everything is a lie. This fraudulent amnesty is a lie and so is his Government,” Feijóo attacked Sánchez, to whom the head of the opposition reminded him that he himself said that approving public accounts is “the first and main obligation of a ruler” and that, If this cannot be achieved, elections must be called.
