José Luis Ábalos has become the politician who has been talked about the most in recent weeks. And the controversy surrounding him is causing a political and media earthquake. Koldo García, former personal assistant of the member of the Congress of Deputies, was arrested for allegedly charging illegal commissions on mask purchases during the pandemic, something that has ended up affecting, in some way, Ábalos.
Since this news broke, the PSOE did not hesitate to ask for the resignation of its former Minister of Transport, something that did not sit well with it. After not agreeing to abandon his seat in Congress, he was expelled from the party and moved to the Mixed Group. And it was on Thursday when he decided to sit down with Risto Mejide on his program, where he has not had a good time.
Ábalos did not hesitate to sit on the same couch with the presenter to answer all the questions on Todo es lie. An interview that the politician assured would be the last. And it is not surprising considering the moment of tension that was experienced when Mejide wanted to know a key piece of information.
“When was your last message with Koldo García through WhatsApp?” was the question that ended up getting the politician into trouble. And before this, the former minister assured that he had blocked Koldo, therefore, he wanted to avoid her by saying that he could not look at him. “But if you’ve blocked it, you can look at it,” the writer replied.
After Risto Mejide proposed being able to look at it himself, Ábalos flatly refused: “Leave something for justice, we are already getting into a lot, let’s respect justice.” Next, the politician ended up screwing up even more by saying that he couldn’t because he had “deleted everything.”
“Are you telling me to respect justice and the first thing you did was delete a WhatsApp conversation with Koldo García?” the writer replied. At that moment, José Luis Ábalos changed course and claimed not to have “emptied anything.” A twist in his arguments that the presenter himself glimpsed.
Fed up, the politician wanted to make something clear: “That I’m not going to do it. That I’m not in a court. Leave something for a court. It’s fine that we talk about all the political things, human reactions, but the things that have to do with “With a judicial instruction I’m not going to put it in.”
Finally, Risto accepted not knowing the date of his last WhatsApp with Koldo García, but assured that this was “raising a lot of suspicions.” “I don’t care if all the suspicions are already there,” Ábalos answered emphatically.
