The PP sees Pedro Sánchez increasingly “cornered” by the corrupt plot of the Koldo case and demands immediate explanations of what he knew when the dismissal of focus on Ferraz and la Moncloa, but also shed light on what was happening in Genoa.
The exchange of accusations between socialists and populars worsened yesterday with the appearance of the name of Miguel Tellado in the summary. María Jesús Montero asked to know what the PP spokesperson and the businessmen investigated for the collection of bites in the purchase and sale of masks negotiated at the meeting that Koldo García spoke about in a call that was intercepted by the Civil Guard.
The PP denies that this contact was made. “Obviously not”, Alberto Núñez Feijóo said in the morning in the Senate. An argument that its general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, reiterated and later expanded in Congress: “It is indecent that the PSOE asks for explanations about something that did not happen and is absolutely false”, she assured, and offered her alibi : “On January 10 (date mentioned in the interlocutory) at ten in the morning, Tellado was in the Senate.” “We don’t have twins”, he quipped.
“Stop putting the fan on because they won’t find anything there. They are the ones who have the corruption under their seats”, exclaimed Gamarra, who, on the other hand, did not hesitate to point to the president’s inner circle and claim that his wife, Begoña Gómez, explain his relationship with Víctor de Aldama, commissioner of the plot, and Javier Hidalgo, CEO of Air Europa, businessmen who, according to the PP, were “favored” by the central government.
“We don’t accuse, we ask for explanations”, assumed the popular leader, although she did not rule out that the commission of inquiry that will be created in the Senate, where the PP has an absolute majority, will call Gómez to testify.
With Sánchez – who was years ago yesterday and was not at the plenum – absent, it was Montero who again took it upon himself to respond to the PP’s offensive: “It seems to me that not everything works and there are certain areas that we should preserve and leave out of the political fray, for the good of all”, defended the Vice President of the Government and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE.
Begoña Gómez, he recalled, “has a position of responsibility in a business institute” and, therefore, “it is part of his job” to meet with managers. “In politics, accusations must be measured: infamy cannot be tolerated”, he said.
