First the popular spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, and then the party’s spokesperson, Borja Sémper, have redoubled this Monday the PP’s offensive against Francina Armengol, who the opposition is trying by all means to follow the same path as former minister José Luis Ábalos and be the next to fall for the alleged corruption plot known as the Koldo case, in which justice is investigating the illegal collection of commissions for the purchase and sale of masks during the pandemic.
“The president of Congress cannot continue for another second as the third authority of the State. “We are facing a deep-seated scandal,” the parliamentary spokesperson opened fire early in the morning, after registering in the Lower House a document demanding the immediate resignation of Armengol, who presided over the Balearic Islands at the time when the members of the plot became rich. .
“Today we know that President Armengol paid for useless masks knowing that they were a scam and that money from the citizens of the Balearic Islands ended up paying for the Ferraris of those involved,” said Tellado, whose name, however, also appears in the summary having been mentioned by Koldo García in a telephone conversation intercepted by the Civil Guard.
For the PP, Armengol is doing “enormous damage” to the institution he presides over, whose “prestige” and “decorum” are “devalued” by the information that is appearing about the case, such as the fact that someone from the Ministry of Transport allegedly asked the Balearic Government to contract with the main company in the plot.
“Why could that person exert so much influence that the Balearic Islands would disburse almost four million for defective merchandise?” asked the PP spokesperson in Congress, for whom “the questions accumulate and for any explanation we only have silence.” of Mrs. Armengol” and of the President of the Government himself, Pedro Sánchez, who should also “give explanations” and be “coherent”, demanding from Armengol the same thing that he asked of Ábalos. “He knew it and covered it up,” Tellado repeated , the PP’s usual mantra since the investigation came to light, about the leader of the PSOE.
Borja Sémper has insisted on the same argument, who appeared accompanied by the PP deputy secretary of health, Ester Muñoz, at the press conference after the meeting of the steering committee. “Whether he is an accomplice or a victim of the plot, Armengol has a political responsibility,” stressed the popular spokesperson, who has demanded the resignation of the president of Congress for “duplicity” in the face of what he considers an example of “lack of supervision, negligence or good complicity”.
For the PP, in addition to the possible criminal responsibilities, which will be resolved by justice, there are already political responsibilities that must be assumed by the former Balearic president, since her Government caused “proven damage” to the public coffers by purchasing a batch of masks ” “defective” for which European funds were allocated in an operation that was ordered by “trustworthy officials” following orders of the plot “promoted by the PSOE.”
