The PP has maintained the offensive against the Government in the Senate over the Koldo case by directly accusing the first vice president, María Jesús Montero, of knowing and “covering up” the plot and has considered her as one of the “necessary collaborators” along with the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in a tough control session of the Executive in which there has been no shortage of insults and high-profile accusations.
The PP has accused Pedro Sánchez, absent from the plenary session of the Upper House, of driving in “a car that smells like chorizo ??and fruit”, in reference to the insult that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz, once uttered. Ayuso, to the President of the Government and that his team undisguisedly made up with “I like fruit”, while Montero has reproached the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, also absent since he is no longer a senator, for “sitting in an office paid with black money.”
Three senators from the PP have asked Montero about the Koldo case in the Government control session in the Upper House, denouncing that the vice president and Minister of Finance did nothing about it and that the Ministry of Finance did not investigate the alleged illegal commissions in the purchase of masks.
Montero has insisted in his responses that “the contracts were legal and the procedures were correct” and has assured that “it is evident that a person has taken advantage of the relationship of trust for his own benefit at the worst moment of the pandemic.”
Specifically, the PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, has accused Montero of knowing and “covering up” the plot of the Koldo case, after a report from the Tax Agency that links the rescue of Globalia appeared in the summary ( Air Europa) with the business activity of one of the main defendants.
“If an economic vice president ignores the warnings of her officials and there is a corruption plot behind it, tell us what she would do. We do know what she has to do,” he commented in reference to a possible resignation of Montero, whom he has said that “she has gone from being an advisor of the Eres to being the vice president of the Mordidas.”
And the popular senator Salvador Foronda has identified Montero and Marlaska as “necessary collaborators” of the plot, in addition to the Minister of Health during the pandemic, Salvador Illa, and the then presidents of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, and the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres. .
“There are no minutes, there are no complaints, there are no inspections or the tax on great fortunes that is being proclaimed out there, there is only a group of partners who have traveled in that car (referring to Pedro Sánchez’s Peugeot) that smells like chorizo and fruit,” he said.
Along the same lines, PP senator José Antonio Monago has also attacked Montero for his lack of knowledge of the case by stating that Koldo García walked around “like Pedro around his house” throughout the administration “but no one knew” and that there is six ministries involved, two regional governments and about twenty detainees “from the socialist environment.”
In one of his interventions, Montero asked the PP senator Salvador de Foronda “what he has to reproach” the officials and the rest of the workers of the State administration who, as he assured, did “an extraordinary job at the worst time.” of our history to find masks when there was a global shortage. “It is calling into question the work of the administration, which the judge has not even questioned,” he added.
On the other hand, Montero has contrasted the PSOE’s position with the corruption of the PP, since he has pointed out that while the socialists collaborate with Justice and demand political responsibilities, as they did with former minister José Luis Ábalos, the popular ones “destroyed hammered the computers with evidence” in the Gürtel case and they fired Pablo Casado as party leader after denouncing corruption in the Community of Madrid and “today Feijóo sits in an office paid for with black money.”
And he has asked the spokesperson of the PP of the Senate if she is going to present her resignation due to the Black Pearl plot of Castilla y León, having been part of the Junta Government, and if they are going to ask for the resignation of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, after her brother “got rich at the worst moment of the pandemic”, or the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, for his cousin’s “corruption case” regarding the sale of masks.
