Pedro Sánchez became president of the Government in a motion of no confidence that was excused by the involvement of the PP in corruption cases, and the PP is going to return him with the same coin, but without a motion. The proximity of the elections, first municipal and regional and then general, make plots such as the `’Mediator case”, for which a Canarian deputy, Juan Bernando Fuentes Curbelo, has already resigned, which leads the PP to try to get the case is known as the ‘Tito Berni case’, so that it is more closely identified with the PSOE.
To this end, the PP requires the PSOE to identify the 15 members of the PSOE, it is assumed that most of them are deputies although there could be a senator, about whom Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, the main source of the investigation, has testified.
The Mediator case refers to the alleged collection of commissions from businessmen, in exchange for subsidies, public contracts, for expediting the licensing process or stopping inspections. Some commissions that were deposited, according to the investigation, in the accounts of the Vega de Tetir Sports Association, chaired by former deputy Fuentes Curbelo.
The case dates back to when Fuentes held the position of general director of livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands, a position in which his nephew succeeded him, when in 2020 he resigned to take a seat in the Congress of Deputies, replacing another colleague. game. Already in Madrid, those involved in the Mediator case, according to the investigation, organized meals and parties that were even held during the state of alarm due to the pandemic, according to the investigation that has been carried out in the Canary Islands courts for a year.
The PP will ask to appear in the case, and will demand explanations from the president of the Canary Islands, the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres. A path that will be complemented by the one that the national leadership will take in Congress itself, which now involves urging the PSOE to give the name of the socialist deputies who received those involved in the plots, and to make known the visits that were made .
The leaders of the PP, both yesterday the spokesman, Borja Semper, as well as the general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, and the vice-secretary of organization, Miguel Tellado today are trying to turn the Mediator case no longer into the “Tito Berni” case – nickname of the deputy socialist among his cronies- but in the “Tito Sánchez” case, taking advantage of the fact that the President of the Government has photos with the socialist deputy.
At the moment, the PP has started a parliamentary offensive in Congress, with the request for the appearance of the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, both in Congress and in the Senate, for the contracts with some of the businessmen involved, as well as the ministers defense. Margarita Robles, and Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, as announced this morning by the people’s deputy Belén Hoyo.
Miguel Tellado assured this Tuesday that it is “the entire PSOE that is under suspicion”, for which reason “he cannot look the other way” in this case, he said, in which an alleged influence peddling in Congress is mixed, with bites, prostitution and drugs. The popular leader considers it “very serious” that within the plot, the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife asked the mediator to “bust” the Realejos City Council, to destroy the PP candidate for the presidency of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez.
For his part, the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, also focused on Sánchez, who is, he said, the one who must clarify “the degree of involvement of the PSOE, the number of deputies involved and since when he knew about the case.
