The president of the Congress of Deputies, the socialist Francina Armengol, has broken her silence after the PP’s attacks over the mask contract signed by the Balearic Government that she presided over and the Koldo plot. And she has done so by trying to redirect the spotlight that until now has been on her towards the Popular Party, whom she has not hesitated to ask for responsibility to explain what happened to the complaint file that the autonomous Executive that she presided over formalized just before making the transfer to Marga Prohens regarding the sale with the company Soluciones de Gestión.
Armengol has responded in this way to the PP after the main opposition party has asked for his resignation and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a formal investigation into the contracts signed by this company and the Canarian Health Service and that of the Balearic Islands.
The third authority of the State, who has measured his times to “preserve at all times” the institution, has criticized the PP because he considers that the party has “jumped all the red lines” accusing her when neither she nor “any person from the previous government Balearic Islands is being investigated. And that is why he has defended the professionalism of his team. “I have never given any instructions in my life to anyone in my government to buy from a certain company, because I am not one of those,” Armengol said at a press conference in Congress in which he wanted to make it clear that He is not going to “let them tarnish my name or tarnish the management of the government that I presided over with corruption.” “In politics, not everything goes,” she has warned on several occasions.
Given the insistence of questions about the contacts of the plot to sign the contract, the president of the Congress of Deputies has paused to highlight her message: “I want to be very clear about something. Neither to me, nor to me Government, no one, and no one is no one, neither gave us an order, nor pressured us, nor coerced us, nor asked us to hire any company. And no one is no one. Neither that nor that we gave up demanding the money from the company. And I will tell you something else, because I think I deserve to say that. I have governed the autonomous community for eight years, and the Island Council of Mallorca for four years. Never, ever in my life have I given any instructions to anyone in my governments to hire to one company or another. Never in my life, because I am not one of those, because I am clear about why I am in politics, and that is why I come out here to defend it with complete clarity,” Armengol defended.
The president of the Lower House has refused to resign and has considered it “curious” that “whoever asks her to resign is the only one who appears in the summary”, in reference to the PP spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, who appears cited in a conversation as a possible interlocutor of the plot to deal precisely with the claim of the Balearic government that finally declined with the PP of Marga Prohens in the government. Something that allowed commission agents to keep very high amounts.
The president of Congress has justified that she has not spoken until now about this issue that has been affecting her for almost two weeks in order to “preserve the good name of the institution” that she presides, but she has assured that she has been forced to explain why, As he said, “the main party in this House has decided to ignore all borders and red lines.”
