“Bluntly: you knew it and you covered it up,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo criticized him, in the face of the murky corruption scandal of the Koldo case. And in the absence of the great protagonist of the day, the former minister José Luis Ábalos who has already jumped from the socialist group to the mixed group, Pedro Sánchez has tried to counterattack in the Government control session in Congress. “It is embarrassing that you think you can take political advantage of corruption, coming from the next party,” the head of the Executive reproached the leader of the Popular Party.
“This is a Government that is relentless against corruption and incompatible with corruption,” Sánchez stressed. “This is a Government that does not cover up corruption and that fights corruption face to face, and not with empty speeches as you do, but with facts and actions,” he assured, in the face of the intensified PP offensive. The leader of the PSOE has defended “the assumption of political responsibilities beyond judicial responsibilities”, after the departure of Ábalos from the socialist group. “Quite the opposite of what you do,” he reproached the popular bench.
Sánchez thus wanted to stand up to Feijóo, who in this control session has forgotten about the Amnesty law to focus on the Koldo case. “To be credible in your role as Torquemada, both you and your political party should have another resume,” the president replied to the leader of the PP, whom he wanted to remind of the cases of corruption that have plagued his party. “This Government and this party will never point the finger at either the Justice Department or the State security forces and bodies,” he warned.
“This Government is not going to use corrupt elements of the State security forces and bodies to set up a so-called patriotic police, persecute political adversaries and obstruct the action of justice,” he assured, in reference to the Catalunya operation. to the Bárcenas case, among others. “This Government and this party are not going to destroy with a hammer the evidence required by the judges,” he concluded.
Sánchez has insisted that he became president of the Government, after the motion of censure that overthrew Mariano Rajoy in 2018, “to banish political corruption.” Feijóo, on the other hand, came to the leadership of the PP “to cover up corruption,” he assured, in the case of alleged corruption that affected the brother of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and that led to the fall of the then tenant of Genoa, Pablo Casado.
“Why did Casado fall?” Sánchez asked Feijóo. And he himself has responded: “Casado fell for denouncing a corruption plot by Mrs. Ayuso in the Community of Madrid.” Furthermore, the leader of the PSOE has reproached him for saying that Feijóo “is standing up to cover up this corruption.” “This Government cuts things short, others cut the heads of those who denounce corruption,” he concluded.
The PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, has insisted on the same argument that Feijóo has insisted on in his question to the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, whom he has questioned what he has to say about “complicity”. absolute” of the Government, “surrounded by political, moral and economic corruption”, with the alleged plot that awarded illegal commissions during the pandemic and to which the former advisor to the Ministry of Transport Koldo García is linked. “He who remains silent grants,” exclaimed Tellado, who has assumed that Sánchez had knowledge of what was being investigated for two years and fell instead of reporting it.
“We did not have information about the judicial case because it was secret,” replied the Minister of Justice, who assured that when the Government became aware of the judicial investigation it collaborated with it: “You may find it surprising, given the PP’s background, but “This is what we did,” said Bolaños, who exclaimed that he was “repulsed” by corruption and made a passionate defense of the exercise of politics by those who “give the best of themselves for the benefit of citizens.”
“It disgusts him but he lives with it, that is the reality,” counterattacked the popular spokesperson, who accused the socialists of being “buried in the most disgusting mud of corruption” and has criticized the fact that there are members of that group who “ “They took advantage of the pandemic to get rich,” to whom he predicted the same future as Koldo García and Ábalos.
“There is nothing more discouraging than him and you more, but it is good that citizens know that the PP and the PSOE are not the same,” Bolaños has defended himself again, and has counterattacked by ensuring that while the socialists create investigation commissions To “shed light”, the popular ones “throw their leaders to the ground when they denounce possible cases of corruption”, in reference to what happened with Pablo Casado, whose replacement as president of the PP was precipitated by his public confrontation with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a following the alleged collection of illegal commissions from the brother of the Madrid president during the pandemic. “I ask you not to be so reckless with the history you have behind you,” the minister concluded after remembering the “black money” with which, according to Bolaños, the renovation of the party’s national headquarters in the city was paid for. Genoa Street.
