There are one-act tragedies and there are, like Macbeth, up to five. We will see what the work that we now have in our hands offers us. But oh, God, what a beginning! Heroes, traitors and villains. Only that in this plot we still don’t know how many characters there will be in the end or who is who for sure. A corruption plot, in addition to time, requires the following ingredients to be laid bare: mistakes by the bandits, an effective investigation and resentful cowards who sing La Traviata.
Koldo García and his brother Joseba, murris from the north, are the bad guys at the moment. And a bit silly, we should add, to ignore the most basic rules of operation for men of honor: don’t brag about the money immediately after the coup and don’t pass around 500 euro bills in bars and restaurants.
Víctor de Aldama, the president of Zamora, must also be placed among the wicked, who we already know from the judge’s interlocutory order that he had a special pass from the Ministry of Transport to move like a father-in-law through those dependencies. He used it to negotiate on behalf of Air Europa, among other matters, advantages for the company, which the Government ended up helping with 615 million euros to prevent it from going bankrupt. Bad, very bad, also, the businessman Juan Carlos Cueto, who yesterday declared in front of the judge that his only goal with the little liar masks he brought us from China was to act in defense of the Spanish. Mr. Cueto: let’s see if you and your cynicism explode!
But the star of the feature is not the characters with already defined and politically subaltern characters. The dramatic tension is monopolized by José Luís Ábalos, once a powerful minister and organizing secretary of the PSOE whom the president of the central government keeps trying to politically assassinate again and again. The first was two years ago, when he dismissed him without explanation, raising all kinds of suspicions. The second now, which directly accuses him of being responsible for the corruption that is emerging in the ministry he led. But Ábalos rebelled against his fatal fate when they were already trying to kill him and a tall epitaph was engraved on the tombstone: “Here lies a faithful servant of the party”.
Hero or villain? Cynical or guilty? Loyal or traitor? The ex-minister challenges everyone from a role that does not suit him at all but which he executes with more than remarkable success: the innocent victim who came into the world yesterday. The most interesting thing he has said so far is that he has many answers that he will give and that Koldo García who plugged him into his ministry offering all the personal guarantees was Santos Cerdán, who currently plays all the roles of the auca for Pedro Sánchez. These are phrases that, speaking in footballing terms, would be equivalent to two great passes in depth so that the play continues closer to the area: I know what I know and tweet, tweet that I wasn’t there, that it was someone else. As in the dentist joke, guys, don’t hurt yourself more than you’ve already done.
The PSOE continues to empty water so as not to be cut short in the work. Commission of inquiry at the Congress’ own request, despite the fact that it is more in the spirit of obfuscation than of clarifying anything. And audit commissioned by the vehement head of Transport, Óscar Puente, to clarify doubts about the hiring of this ministry. Puente is right to take the initiative, knowing that calls are also being investigated between Koldo García and Álvaro Sánchez Manzanares, secretary general of State Ports, a public company that, like Adif, also participated in the orgiastic purchase of masks during the pandemic.
The central government, that is, Sánchez, says it is calm. Although of course the procession goes inside. Even in the best case scenario for their interests – that in the end it is a one-act drama – the balance of damages is already more than considerable. And not to give ammunition to the opposition, which also; but because killing a close family member is an ominous bird in all classic tragedies. Even more so if it is not achieved. And Ábalos, badly injured, blood brother of Pedro Sánchez, is very much alive.
