Diana Morant has distanced herself this morning from her PSPV colleague and former minister José Luís Ábalos in the conversation she had on Cadena SER with the journalist Bernardo Guzmán. “I don’t have a close relationship with him, I couldn’t say an exact date for when I’ve known him; I think I must have spoken with him five or six times in thirteen years,” he added of the person who was number two in the Valencian socialist candidacy to the Congress last 23-J.
She entered the Council of Ministers just when Ábalos was dismissed as head of Public Works, in July 2021, so they did not share government meetings.
Asked about the PSOE’s decision to remove Ábalos from the party, she pointed out that “the socialist party has done what it had to do, no matter who falls and even if it hurts; because my party feels comfortable with exemplarity.”
“We are not going to cover up the case, we are going to be active in discovering it,” said the minister who warned, however, that “we are not judges, but in politics we must know how to assume responsibilities.” But she recalled that Ábalos, as Secretary of Organization of the PSOE “behaved in a similar way in similar cases” in reference to the fact that he also requested “exemplarity.”
Diana Morant has staged the same arguments as Pedro Sánchez when the journalist asked her if she believed it was possible to approve an Amnesty Law. “I have no doubt, I have also been in Barcelona this week and I have seen that Catalan society is much better now than before.” She has also expressed confidence that her government will carry out the budgets this year.
Regarding his project for the PSPV, he has announced that he wants a party “that resembles Ximo Puig’s project.” Regarding his relationship with Carlos Mazón as leader of the opposition, he has insisted that “it is difficult to reach agreements with someone who shares a government with Vox.” “Agreements cannot be built from that base,” he added.
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