The President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, assured this Thursday that what businessman Víctor de Aldama said about him, his government and the PSOE is “categorically false” and challenged the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to present a motion of censurewhose door he opened.
This is what Aldama said before the judge, in statements to congressional media, after stating that commissions paid to PSOE leader Santos Cerdán and former minister José Luis Ábalos, and involve Sánchez in the visit to Spain of the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodriguezin 2020.
“About this character’s appearance I mean my government is a clean government“, he noted, before emphasizing that this is the statement of a “suspected criminal” who is in preventive detention and who He deserves the credit he gets: “none”.
Sánchez recalled that His maxim has “always” been to “extirpate” all traces of corruption and that in any case “it will have to be Mr. De Aldama who proves these insinuations and accusations.”
“I can of course guarantee that we are calm because as far as myself, my current government, my organization, the PSOE, are concerned,Everything this man says is categorically false.“, insisted the head of the Executive.
According to him, if anything was demonstrated with the commissioner’s declaration, it was that his defense strategy is lies: “He is probably doing this to divert attention, sow doubt and cover up what appears to be some criminal activity on the part of this character.”
In turn, Sánchez referred to the statements of the leader of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóowho requested his resignation and that of the rest of the Executive, and where he contacted the partners of the Executive to form an alternative Government.
“Parliamentary groups are free and autonomous to define their political strategies. Motions of censure are constructive in our constitutional order, it would even be a good opportunity for Mr. Feijóo to propose an alternative government which is not known today,” he added.
In this sense, Sánchez recalled that when he presented one in 2018 against the government of Mariano Rajoy, the PP declared that he was “an unconstitutional instrument”.
“This is why the greatest respect is given to the fact that motions of censure can be presented because they fall within our constitutional order,” he concluded.
