An eye for an eye and corruption for corruption. The PP will not have the slightest consideration with Pedro Sánchez in the face of the “indecent plot” that affects the PSOE, in the same way that the President of the Government did not have it with Mariano Rajoy to cause his fall by presenting a motion of censure as a result of the Gürtel case, six years ago.
This was announced by sources from Genoa and confirmed yesterday by Cuca Gamarra after a hasty meeting of popular leaders at the party headquarters. “Pedro Sánchez does not dare to explain to us why he dismissed José Luis Ábalos in 2021 and now he does not dare to ask for the minutes,” said the general secretary of the PP, who hinted that the PSOE leader fears the reaction of the former Minister of Transport. .
“We all thought there had to be some cause and we were never given an explanation why. Possibly what we know today was already beginning to be known by whoever was in charge of the Government,” reasoned Gamarra, who believes that Sánchez may have some “concern” about what Ábalos may say about what he knows about him.
“We are at the tip of the iceberg, we still have a lot of information to know,” said the number two of the PP, for whom if in the end it is revealed that Sánchez had information about what is being discovered and that was why he suddenly relieved Ábalos , it would be shown that he is not only “responsible for covering it up for a long time”, but also for “not having reported it”.
And for the PP, “more and more testimonies are becoming known that this was already known, that it was something that was talked about in the Moncloa and in Ferraz”, which is why the silence of Sánchez, “hidden” in Rabat At the beginning of the crisis caused by the arrest of Koldo García, investigated for the collection of illegal commissions in the purchase and sale of masks in the middle of the pandemic, it could be a form of complicity.
Not in vain has the scandal reached her inner circle, as the popular leader underlined, those who helped her win the turbulent PSOE primaries and be re-elected as general secretary in 2017 and were at her side when she launched his offensive against Rajoy in 2018.
The “Ábalos case”, which is how Gamarra renamed it to elevate its political magnitude above the former advisor of the former minister, “directly involves those who were Sánchez’s brains”, among them, he noted, Santos Cerdán, current secretary of organization of the PSOE and in charge of negotiating the investiture with Junts, which was the one who sponsored Koldo García in the Ministry of Transport.
But although the alleged corrupt plot had its origin in this department, explained the general secretary of the PP, it did not stop there, but extended to the Health Department, then directed by Salvador Illa, today leader of the PSC and candidate to govern the Generalitat. , and the Interior, in addition to branching out to two socialist autonomous governments, that of the Balearic Islands, whose head at the time, Francina Armengol, presides over Congress in the current legislature, and that of the Canary Islands, which during the pandemic was in the hands of the current Minister of Public Administrations, Ángel Víctor Torres.
Big game that the PP will relentlessly harass: “Armengol is the third authority of the State – the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, recalled in a tweet – and as Balearic president she paid Koldo 3.7 million for “some defective masks that later ended up thrown in a warehouse.”
On the political front, the PP, apart from demanding the resignation of Ábalos, which it considers should have occurred days ago, will ask Sánchez to account in the control session next Wednesday, for which it has already registered in the Congress the pertinent questions. And on the judicial front, he will appear in the case so that criminal responsibilities are established and that the investigation reaches the end “whoever falls and affects whoever it affects,” according to Gamarra.
“Having been complainants – the judicial investigation is based on a claim by the popular group in the Madrid Assembly –, we demand to be present within the procedure, with the aim of defending the Spaniards in what should be transparency, compliance with the law and the fight against corruption,” proclaimed the popular leader.
After having lost power due to the Gürtel case, the PP now sees the opportunity to hit back at the PSOE and will apply in this matter, which the popular executive links to the “sordid” Tito Berni, “an equally strict criterion” to that of the socialists on that occasion, “in defense of democratic hygiene and the exemplary nature of politics.”
