President Pedro Sánchez assured this Saturday that he was absolutely “calm” in the face of the new revelations of the Koldo affair which could appear in the coming weeks, indicated that he would try to achieve the 2025 budget despite the lack of parliamentary support and announced a profound renewal of the PSOE in the Federal Congress convened for the end of November.
During the reception offered by the Kings at the Royal Palace, after the National Day parade, Pedro Sánchez joked with journalists about the attacks he receives from the “torquemadas” of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, because of the Koldo affair.
In this regard, the President of Government assured journalists that he was not aware of the illicit activities of former Minister José Luis Ábalos, whose prosecution will seek indictment before the Supreme Court.– and defended that the government had acted with “speed and transparency” in this matter.
Just five days after the first information implicating Ábalos appeared, he claimed, the PSOE would have asked him to hand over his deputy certificate (which the former Minister of Transport refused) and would have opened a file of exclusion from the party.
Some 1,300 guests attended the traditional reception on the occasion of the National Day which, chaired by the kings and the princess of Asturias, began on Saturday around 1:30 p.m. at the Royal Palace.
After the military parade which took place in pouring rain, the royal family went to the Royal Palace, where the king took off his military clothes, but the princess, as a midshipman at the Naval Military School of Marín (Pontevedra), continued with the navy outfit. uniform.
The reception began with greetings in the Throne Room, which was attended for almost an hour and a half by the highest representatives of the State powers, members of the Government, the presidents of the Autonomous Communities and the autonomous parliaments , political parties. .politicians with parliamentary representation.
Representatives of economic organizations and social agents, the army and royal academies or religious denominations, among others, are also present, reports Efe.
The kings and princess of Asturias also greeted a civil society group made up of scientists, academics and representatives of associations who coincided with the royal family in different events throughout Spain.
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