The PP has redoubled its offensive against the PSOE due to the alleged corrupt plot led by Koldo García Izaguirre, advisor to José Luis Ábalos when he was Minister of Transport, and through which illegal commissions were charged for the purchase of masks in the middle of the pandemic. .
In a press conference called by the general secretary after meeting with several PP leaders to coordinate the reaction to the new information about the case, Cuca Gamarra announced that the party will appear in the judicial case and has expanded the focus of Ábalos, whose resignation he demands and considers should have occurred days ago, from the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, and the Minister of Public Administrations, Ángel Víctor Torres.
“We are at the tip of the iceberg, we still have a lot of information to know,” said Gamarra, for whom it is finally revealed that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had received some information about what is now being discovered and that That was why he relieved Ábalos as minister, it would be shown that he is “responsible for having covered it up for a long time and not reported it.”
With the appearance in the judicial case, which follows the complaint that the PP raised from the Madrid Assembly and that allowed the investigation into the case to begin, the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo seeks to establish criminal responsibilities and for the investigation to reach In the end, “whoever falls falls and it affects whoever it affects,” as argued by Gamarra, who has announced the creation of a monitoring group made up of PP leaders that will adapt the political response at all times.
“Having been whistleblowers, we demand to be involved in the procedure, with the aim of defending Spaniards in what should be transparency, compliance with the law and the fight against corruption,” proclaimed the general secretary of the PP, who has baptized the Koldo case as directly the “Ábalos case”, because it affects, he has stressed, the team closest to President Sánchez, the one who was at his side when he became general secretary of the PSOE in primaries and when he became president of the Government thanks to a motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.
“The Ábalos case directly implicates those who were the brains, the visible heads of Sánchez,” insisted Gamarra, who also pointed out the figure of Santos Cerdán, current organizational secretary of the PSOE and in charge of the negotiations for the investiture. with Junts, who was the person who sponsored Koldo García in the Ministry of Transportation. “They are the same,” said the popular leader in reference to the president’s closest circle.
For the PP, the plot had its origin in the ministry headed by Ábalos, but it spread to other departments that will also have to be put under the microscope, such as Health, with the Catalan Salvador Illa, current leader of the PSC, at the helm, or the Interior. But, in addition, Gamarra has targeted the autonomous governments of the Balearic Islands, then chaired by Francina Armengol, today president of Congress, and of the Canary Islands, whose president under the pandemic, Ángel Víctor Torres, is the current Minister of Public Administrations.
“Pedro Sánchez does not dare to explain to us why Ábalos was fired in 2021 and now he does not dare to ask for the minutes,” said Gamarra, who has hinted that this may be due to what the former minister may know about the president and has added that “more and more testimonies are known that this was already known, that it was something that was talked about in the Moncloa and in Ferraz.”
“We all thought that there had to be some cause and we were never given an explanation why, to this day we still don’t have that explanation,” insisted the general secretary of the PP, for whom “possibly what we know today was already beginning to be known.” by whoever was at the head of the Government”, which is why Sánchez himself, as Gamarra has slipped, could harbor some “concerns about what Ábalos knows about himself”.
Although it does not rule out creating investigative commissions in the parliaments of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands as Vox has demanded, the PP currently governs both communities alone or in coalition and, therefore, its executives may also undertake actions to clarify the facts, he recalled. Gamarra, who has set for the Government control session next Wednesday “the first assumption of responsibilities” of Sánchez, who will have to answer the questions already registered yesterday Thursday in Congress about the case.
Be that as it may, after having been evicted from the government by a motion of censure as a result of the Gürtel case, the PP now sees the opportunity to hit back at the PSOE and will apply, according to party sources, in this matter “a criterion equally strict” to which Ábalos himself maintained on that occasion, in June 2018, “in defense of democratic hygiene and exemplary politics.”
In this sense, from Genoa they point out that the PSOE cannot expect any consideration on its part in the face of an “indecent” plot that adds a “sordid point” to the one previously linked to Tito Berni, the former socialist deputy who resigned from his record when he was involved. in a corruption scandal.
The PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, has also influenced the issue via Then they remained “lying in a warehouse until he left his position”, which is why he asks the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for explanations of all this.