“Whoever falls falls, he who does it pays,” warned the President of the Government and leader of the PSOE. In the midst of a political storm over the murky scandal of alleged corruption in which Koldo García, the former personal assistant of former minister José Luis Ábalos, is being investigated, whom the PSOE is already pressuring, so far without success, to resign from his position. As a deputy in Congress, Pedro Sánchez has flagged his absolute commitment to the fight against corruption and has defended the “exemplarity” of his Government and his political project.
Sánchez thus inaugurated this Saturday in Ferraz the meeting of the council of the Socialist International – an organization that he also presides over and that brings together social democratic, socialist and labor parties from around the world – with a song to the “exemplarity” of the Government that he managed to form already. in 2018, precisely to put an end to the “corruption” of the previous Executive of the then leader of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, and which he has revalidated after the 2023 general elections against the “reactionary coalition” of the PP and the extreme right of Vox.
Before the delegates of this internationalist organization, Sánchez highlighted that, in 2018, his government “was born from the need to end the corruption of the previous administration of the Popular Party government”, after the ruling in the Gürtel case. “And he has made, in addition to his exemplarity, and exemplarity, his flag,” he stressed, to secretly shake off the Koldo case. “An absolute, total exemplarity, that does not understand colors,” he has defended.
“I want to reaffirm that this fight against corruption has to be relentless, no matter where it comes from and whoever falls,” he insisted, again in implicit reference to the Koldo case that now affects the PSOE, and also in a veiled reference to his ex. Minister of Transport and former secretary of organization of Ferraz, José Luis Ábalos.
“In the face of those who obstructed the action of Justice to hinder investigations that affected them, as happened during the administration of the Popular Party, today there is absolute collaboration with Justice to reach the end,” Sánchez defended.
“And in the face of those who supported corruption, and expelled those who reported it, absolute transparency today, and whoever does it pays,” he stressed. “This is how it has been during these last six years, and this is how it will continue to be during these next four years,” he warned, in reference to his current mandate. “Guaranteeing exemplarity,” he concluded, “has been and will continue to be the hallmark of the progressive coalition government.”
