An eye for an eye and corruption for corruption. The PP will not have the slightest consideration with Pedro Sánchez in relation to the “indecent plot” that affects the PSOE, in the same way that the president of the Spanish Government did not have it with Mariano Rajoy to cause his downfall when he presented a motion of censure following the Gürtel case, six years ago.
This was announced by sources in Genoa and confirmed yesterday by Cuca Gamarra after a hasty meeting of popular leaders at the party’s headquarters. “Pedro Sánchez does not dare to explain to us why he dismissed José Luis Ábalos in 2021 and now he does not dare to ask him for the minutes”, said the general secretary of the PP, who hinted that the leader of the PSOE fears the reaction of the former Minister of Transport.
“We all thought there had to be some reason and we were never given an explanation as to why. Possibly what we know today was already beginning to be known by whoever was at the head of the Spanish Government”, reasoned Gamarra, who believes that Sánchez may have some “concern” about what Ábalos may say about what he knows about him.
“We are in front of the tip of the iceberg, we still have a lot of information left to know”, assured the number two of the PP, for whom if in the end it is revealed that Sánchez had information about what is being discovered and that is why suddenly replaced Ábalos, it would be shown that he is not only “responsible for having covered it up for a long time”, but also for “not having reported it”.
And it is that for the PP, “there are more and more witnesses that this was already known, that it was something that was talked about in Moncloa and Ferraz”, which is why the silence of Sánchez, “hidden” in Rabat in the The beginning of the crisis caused by the arrest of Koldo García, investigated for the collection of illegal commissions in the purchase and sale of masks in the midst of a pandemic, may be a form of complicity.
It is not for nothing that the scandal has reached his innermost circle, as the popular leader was responsible for underlining, those who helped him win the turbulent PSOE primaries and be re-elected as general secretary in 2017 and put themselves in the his side when he launched his offensive against Rajoy in 2018.
The “Ábalos case”, which is how Gamarra renamed it to raise the political magnitude above the ex-minister’s ex-advisor, “directly involves those who were the brains of Sánchez”, among them, he pointed out, Santos Cerdán , current secretary of organization of the PSOE and in charge of negotiating the investiture agreement with Junts, who sponsored Koldo García in the Ministry of Transport.
But even though the alleged corrupt plot had its origin in this department, explained the general secretary of the PP, it did not stop there, but spread to the Department of Health, then led by Salvador Illa, now leader of the PSC and aspiring to govern the Generalitat, and the Interior, and would also have branched out towards two socialist autonomous governments: that of the Balearic Islands, when it was headed by Francina Armengol, who presides over Congress during the current legislature, and that of the Canary Islands, which during the pandemic was in the hands of the current Minister of Public Administrations, Ángel Víctor Torres.
Pieces of big game that the PP will relentlessly pursue: “Armengol is the third authority of the State – recalled in a tweet the spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Miguel Tellado -, and as Balearic president she paid Koldo 3.7 million for defective masks that ended up in a warehouse”.
On the political front, the PP, aside from demanding the resignation of Ábalos, which it considers should have happened days ago, will ask Sánchez to take responsibility in Wednesday’s control session, for which he has already has registered the relevant questions in Congress. And on the judicial front, he will be involved in the cause so that criminal responsibilities are established and that the investigation reaches the end “whoever falls and affects who it affects”, as Gamarra advanced.
“Having been whistleblowers (the judicial investigation starts from a claim by the popular group to the Assembly of Madrid), we ask to be persons in the procedure, with the aim of defending the Spanish in terms of transparency, compliance with the law and the fight against corruption”, proclaimed the popular leader.
After having lost power due to the Gürtel case, the PP now sees the opportunity to strike back at the PSOE and will apply in this affair, which the executive links to the “sordid” Tito Berni, “an equally strict criterion” that of the socialists at that time, “in defense of democratic hygiene and exemplary politics”.
