Moncloa and Ferraz try to ensure that the firewall erected with the departure of former minister José Luis Ábalos from the socialist group is not overwhelmed despite the relentless offensive deployed by the Popular Party to extend the implications of the Koldo case to other ministers and leaders of the PSOE and destabilize the mandate of Pedro Sánchez, while the Amnesty law keeps the course of this uncertain legislature in the air. To begin with, the socialists are now trying to build a thick retaining wall to protect the current president of Congress, Francina Armengol.
The PP has already focused on the target of its offensive on what is today the third authority of the State, for the scam in the purchase of masks during the pandemic to the alleged corruption plot when she was president of the Balearic Islands. And since the best defense is a good attack, the PSOE tries to direct the fire against the PP itself, against Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s number two, Miguel Tellado, and against the current president of the islands, Marga Prohens, among other popular leaders.
“The indications from the summary point more to the fact that the PP must give urgent explanations,” they say in the leadership of the PSOE. Tellado, Prohens, Jacobo Pombo, “Alberto”… “There are many questions in the air, and it seems that those who pointed the finger, now that we are knowing more details of the summary, are themselves pointed out,” Ferraz warns. “How bad overacting is in politics,” they point out, given the offensive deployed by Feijóo in the face of the murky scandal of alleged corruption in the case of Koldo García, who was personal assistant to José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transportation and former secretary of the organization. PSOE.
To begin with, the leadership of the PSOE has indicated this Friday that Miguel Tellado, spokesperson for the PP in Congress and Feijóo’s “number two” in the party, with whom the judicial summary indicates that Koldo García boasted of having contacted – in addition to with a so “Alberto” – to stop a claim by the Balearic executive for the sale of these masks that did not correspond to those contracted during the pandemic, the socialists whose constitution they have promoted in the Lower House must appear to testify before the investigation commission.
“Miguel Tellado, current number two of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the Popular Party, must testify before the investigative commission that will be established in the Congress of Deputies to explain why his name appears in the summary of the case opened for the alleged payment. of illegal commissions in the purchase of masks during the pandemic”, they have highlighted in the PSOE.
And they have justified their demand: “From what we are learning from the media, it is deduced that the corrupt plot was looking for an intermediary to intercede with the Balearic government, made up of PP and Vox, so that the claim against the companies involved that formulated by the previous government was forgotten in a drawer.”
“It is in this context – socialist sources have pointed out – where some involved in the plot bring up the name of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s number two. “Miguel Tellado seems to be, presumably, the man chosen to convince the Balearic government of the PP and Vox and that this claim will never prosper.” “Coincidentally, this is what happens. Despite being warned of the claim by the previous administration, the Balearic government of the PP and Vox let time pass until the claim was void. This meant that the money disbursed for a batch of masks that did not correspond to the requested order could not be recovered,” they added.
And they have directed their suspicions against the current president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, who succeeded Armengol in office. “The government of Marga Prohens must give many explanations, and confirm or deny whether at any time they received orders from Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s number two, Miguel Tellado, so that this claim would sleep the sleep of the just until the deadlines were met,” They have targeted the PSOE.
Tellado, in turn, “must clarify why his name appears in the summary of this case; If it has anything to do with the failed claim that led to a PP and Vox government in the Balearic Islands; if he spoke with the president of the Balearic Islands about the claim; “If you know any of those mentioned in the judge’s order or in the Prosecutor’s complaint or if at any time you mentioned any issue related to the claim to Alberto Núñez Feijóo.”
“The thread that unites the PP on Génova Street with the Balearic PP is irrefutable. The plot wanted the claim to decline, and the claim declined. They are facts, just as Tellado’s appearance in the summary is also an irrefutable fact,” the socialists have stressed.
The PP, the PSOE has criticized, “can continue building a story in which every day they add and tarnish the names of honest people, without any type of judicial support or journalistic investigations.” And they have even warned that “the flight from the press led by Feijóo, in which after launching infamies against everything and everyone, he has not admitted a single question from journalists, further enhances the fantasy that is being built in the street.” Genoa around a case whose victims are clearly reflected in the judicial documentation.”
