The commission of investigation into the Koldo case in Congress will finally have the appearance of José Luis Ábalos after the agreement reached by the PSOE, which initially refused to call the former Minister of Development, with its parliamentary partners.
The names agreed upon also include those of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the PSC candidate and former Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, and the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Victor Torres.
The PSC candidate, precisely, will be one of the first to intervene. The committee’s Board has decided to convene it for next Monday – even before the Senate. A trick by the PSOE that, in addition to preventing the summons from coinciding with the central phase of the electoral campaign in Catalonia, will reduce interest in his intervention in the commission that the PP pilots in the Upper House.
Another novelty, not initially contemplated by the PSOE, is the presence of businessmen and alleged “corruptors”, Víctor de Aldama, Íñigo Rotaeche or Juan Carlos Cueto. The pact also includes technical profiles, such as that of the president of the Court of Accounts, Enriqueta Chicano; the president of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF), Cristina Herrero; or the anti-corruption prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón.
The PSOE has finally reached an agreement with its parliamentary partners to request a single list of those appearing at the investigation commission on the purchase of medical supplies by public administrations in a pandemic, after last Thursday they registered their requests separately.
This was indicated by the commons deputy and co-spokesperson for Sumar, Sumar Aina Vidal, before starting the commission: “There is a general agreement. Many of us share that this commission cannot be a spectacle or a trial, but it must include those who had something to do with the pyramid scheme that was carried out while Spain was experiencing a crisis situation due to the pandemic.”
The names on which, at the moment, there is no agreement and have been left out of this first list, will be put to a separate vote at the commission meeting. This is the case, for example, of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whose presence is requested by ERC, Bildu and BNG, of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner, Alberto González Amador, whom Sumar and Junts want to interrogate, and of Begoña Gómez , wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, requested by Vox.
The list will ultimately include 134 people. A broad list, although the groups had proposed calling more than 200 people, with the PSOE being the party that has put the most names on the table, 84 in total, followed by the PP, with 67.
