The government adds, to parliamentary weakness, the investigation into Begoña Gómez and the daily entropy between the partners, an explosive statement from Aldama in which he tries to implicate Torres, Montero and Cerdán in the “Koldo plot” and of which he has already The PSOE was warned that it was about poisoning the Federal Congress in Seville. Nothing is a coincidence
Sánchez rearms the majority of the government the day Feijóo requests a motion of censure from his partners
Things have already become so dirty in the public debate that it does not matter whether an (alleged) criminal speaks, whether or not evidence is provided for what he denounces, or whether after a thorough statement before a judge there exists a defense strategy aimed at getting the declarant out of prison. Compliance with procedural deadlines has long ceased to be important, truth is relative and convictions are handed down earlier in Parliament and in the media than in court. And that goes for everyone. Politicians of all colors and journalists with different sensibilities.
What is important in the statement of businessman Víctor Aldama this Thursday is not what he said, but what he can demonstrate from everything he reported. Either way, by the time it happens or not, everyone who was involved in the Koldo plot will have eaten up newspaper headlines, newspaper openings and several hours of TV talk shows with convictions for days. The damage has already been done and the objective achieved: spreading bullshit against a government with several fronts already open.
Parliamentary weakness, the bizarre judicial investigation opened against Begoña Gómez, the permanent entropy between partners… Every day, a Vietnam on the table of the Council of Ministers. And although the government finally succeeded this week in pretending in Brussels to delay – with little success and loud ridicule from Feijóo – the appointment of Teresa Ribera as European commissioner as well as the vote on the tax package after an unusual negotiation, there are those who already assume that the confession of the alleged criminal Aldama is the straw that will bring down the government and even that Sánchez is the X of the corrupt organization. It does not matter that he must now demonstrate with evidence, and not with words, the accusations he made against the president, against the secretary of organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, against the minister of Territorial Policy , Angel Victor. Torres, or against the chief of staff of Vice President María Jesús Montero, Carlos Moreno, whom he accuses of collecting bribes.
At the moment, those involved have announced legal action against Aldama. Concretely, Cerdán claims to have never seen the complainant “never in my life”, but those who, without being lawyers, act as exegetes of the laws and even of democracy, have already determined that everything is corroborated and that if the statement of the former leader of the conspiracy has no immediate consequences, Spain is moving towards another regime. There, it’s nothing. It turns out that a confessed criminal cannot be called that because he files a complaint against you and someone who is accused without evidence and who has not even been charged in a judicial investigation must be compared to a dictator because he does not present his resignation immediately after A citizen in pre-trial detention declared about the president: “it was he who approached me to ask for a photo and asked me thanked.” Come on!
That Santos Cerdán was in the crosshairs of those who were part of the corrupt conspiracy for having been the one who carried out the expulsion of José Luis Ábalos from the PSOE is an undoubted fact, as is the fact that the request for voluntary testimony of Aldama comes less than a week before the PSOE Federal Congress. In fact, the socialist leaders were warned a few weeks ago that the neutron bomb launched by the businessman aimed, in addition to his release pending trial, to blow up the conclave and, in doing so, to sully the continuity of Cerdán’s power within the socialist leadership. .
“Spain deserves better. It deserves to be a country in which confessed criminals do not determine the political agenda. It is not free to tarnish people’s reputations. We are not going to let ourselves be trampled. They are not going to defeat us with lies and slander. Get used to the idea”, launched the number three of the PSOE from the podium of the Congress, alluding to a Feijóo who went from the status of non-president of the government because he does not want to become one to that of make himself available to Sánchez’s partners for a motion. of censorship. “No sane person would go from agony to hell,” replied nationalist Jon Iñarritu. “It would be a good opportunity for the leader of the PP to propose an unknown governmental alternative,” Sánchez added, not without irony. Deep down, the President of the Government knows that his opponent, today, still does not have figures and that by launching this appeal, just on the day when Sánchez saved a new match ball in Congress with the approval of the tax package and the joint vote of all its partners, transformed Feijóo’s offer into a useless and ridiculous exercise.
Indeed, nothing is a coincidence in the turbulent political-judicial world, which does not mean that Sánchez, Cerdán, Montero, Torres or whoever is necessary must give detailed explanations, and not as they usually do in a corridor with improvised canutazos. Details are never enough, what is superfluous are slogans. Even more so at a time when trust in politicians is at a minimum and where some try daily to spread the virus of anti-politics and “everyone is equal” which does so much damage to democracies.
