Alberto Nuñez Feijóo demanded “the resignation of Pedro Sánchezif he has a minimum of decency left” and that “his entire government follows him”. The president of the Popular Party appeared before the press in Congress, once the vote was completed this Thursday, after the explosive declaration of Victor de Aldama before the investigating judge Koldo affair at the National Court.
Feijóo demands that Sánchez leave because “what anyone with a modicum of decency would do is leave and leave the Spaniards alone“The people demand explanations on each of the revelations of the commissioner and main architect of the allegedly corrupt plot and to “put an end to this agony” of scandals “near the president, his party, his government and his personal environment. “
Sánchez himself was directly singled out by Aldama, who said that it was the socialist leader who requested a meeting with him and that, during that meeting, he told him “I know what you do and I appreciate it.”.
In an institutional statement, Feijóo regretted “having to appear so many times for a more serious case each time.” And he decided that “This government stinks of lies and corruption”as “the faces of his deputies and some of his ministers” say, and as “the judges already know it, who will continue to act accordingly”.
Feijóo admitted, frustrated, that he He does not have “the votes to change this government”. But he urged the rest of the parliamentary groups that support the president that “if they want to put an end to all this indignity and discredit”, they “ready for a new stage in this country”.
In addition, he asked out loud to the members of the PSOE “Why are they protecting him?”. He himself replied: “Perhaps it is because it is the weakest president, prone to blackmail and suspected of democracy”. But he also urged them, and the PSOE itself, to think about “what they gain by protecting all this rot”.
“Neither extreme right, nor a word”
Besides Sánchez, the so-called “corrupting link” which brings together all the aspects (from the purchase and sale of masks to the Hydrocarbons affair) implicated several ministers and former members of the Executive. A string of names and facts that the popular president reviewed read newspaper headlines published in the heat of certain confessions of Aldama which “bury the credibility and dignity of our country”.
According to Aldama, Fernando Grande Marlaska And Jose Luis Abalos They prepared the trip of the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodriguezfor a month before, aware that he was sanctioned in the EU.
In addition to renting the chalet where number two of Nicolas MaduroIn his statement, the commissioner admitted to having organized a dinner with those already mentioned, Salvador Illa (at the time, head of health) and Therese Ribera (henceforth, at the head of the Ecological Transition). And at their side was expected the presence of Sánchez, at the head of the Spanish delegation.
For all this, according to Feijóo, Sánchez must leave “as he would”. anyone with a minimum of dignity“, because “he cannot hide in fear of the extreme right, because this very Wednesday he agreed with them in Europe, nor deny everything, because his word is worthless.”
And of course, with the resignation of Sánchez, the president of the PP demanded that Teresa Ribera “withdraw her candidacy for vice-president of the European Commission”so as not to stain it.” And he judged that “beyond the list of crimes, this Government lied to the Spanish with a frightening coldness.
Aldama also revealed to the judge that he had met personally with Ribera, now a vice-presidential candidate in Brussels, to promote a business project in an “emptied Spain.” And in this initiative “was Begoña Gómez”the wife of the President of the Government. According to the accused’s version, “the minister was perfectly aware of this project and during one of the meetings, although I was not there, Begoña was present.”
On the other hand, Aldama also accused the current minister Angel Victor Torres for having requested 50,000 euros for his mediation in the purchase of masks by the government of the Canary Islands, which he then chaired. This payment was never made, always according to the accused’s version, therefore Koldo Garcia (Advisor of Ábalos) warned Aldama that they would have “problems”.
Other high-ranking officials he involved in his ventures were Santos CerdanMP and organizational secretary of the PSOE, who allegedly collected 15,000 euros “that Koldo gave him in a bar in front of Ferraz”, and chief of staff of the current first vice-president and already then Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Monteroto whom he allegedly gave 25,000 euros.
“All corruptions”
In this sense, Feijóo left the criminal side in the hands of the judges, but not the political side. “Justice will determine the degree of corruption within the Sánchez government. But We Spaniards are not going to hold out any longer. this legal agony”.
According to the leader of the PP, “There is political corruption, economic corruption and moral corruption”. And the president of the government, “Pedro Sánchez, hired them all.”
The Galician politician concluded with a few words of remembrance of the Valencia tragedy. “In these serious days following the DANA floods,” he declared, “it hurts to see that the government is doing everything to immobilize this ineffective majority as best it can and that He only does it to save himself, and he does not do everything to help and save the Valencians.“.
Aldama asked this week declare voluntarily before the investigating judge Koldo affairin which he appears as an investigator and key element of the entire plot, according to reports from the UCO of the Civil Guard which contributed to the summary.
According to his lawyer, with this explosive statementthe commission agent has started a “collaboration with Justice”beginning to reveal his alleged business relations with the Sánchez government. And for this reason, at the end of his statement, the lawyer proposed greater cooperation from his client to the judge of the National Court. Santiago Pedrazwho sent him to prison in early October for Hydrocarbons affair.
The amount of alleged tax fraud in the payment of VAT, which could reach 180 million euros, and the risk of evasion motivated Pedraz to send him to temporary prison. NOW, Jose Antonio Choclanhis lawyer, asked the judge for the provisional release of Aldama after having demonstrated his good will.
