Yolanda Díaz has formulated the need to reform the figure of the pardon to prohibit this figure from being granted to those convicted of corruption.
This has been the main initiative presented by the leader of Sumar in order to “prevent” and tackle the “scourge of corruption” within a package that also includes, among others, the limitation and restriction of the capacity of public officials, as well as such as the deployment of an independent body that prevents alleged corrupt plots. And in her desire to put an end to “this inadmissible scourge”, she has committed to taking “one more step”, not to punish the corruption that has occurred now, but to establish mechanisms to prevent it from occurring.
This was stated by Díaz during a meeting of the Sumar parliamentary group held this Monday in the Constitutional Chamber in the heat of the Koldo case for the alleged distribution of illegal commissions during the pandemic for the purchase of medical supplies. A plot against whose participants he has harshly attacked, calling them “swamps who were making money during the pandemic by taking advantage of public resources.” “An embarrassment that erodes citizens’ trust in politics,” he concluded.
The Galician, however, has reiterated that the confederal space she pilots is not going to “get carried away by the latest headline or the last tweet. We want to be prudent and wait for the investigation to be carried out to the end,” she said, before to announce their support for as many investigative commissions on the case as are proposed in the Lower House.
That is why Díaz has appealed to “all parties”, and at this point he has made an express call to the PP, to support the deployment of future tools. “The Popular Party must position itself in this chamber regarding its will to avoid corrupt practices within the Spanish public administration,” he stressed.
The second vice president has elaborated that “the time has come” to modify the legislation that regulates pardons in Spain so that it can never be applied to cases of corruption. And after highlighting that she finds it “striking” that this restriction of the pardon measure has not already been applied in Spain, the second vice president recalled that since 1996 there have been more than 10,000 pardons and that it was the former popular president José María Aznar who granted the most to those convicted of corruption (139).
Díaz’s lameness to his parliamentary group has included an express reminder to all his deputies to demonstrate with their actions and actions that politics can be exercised with “exemplarity.”
