The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezdenied any conversation and meeting with the businessman Victor de Aldamakey figure in the Koldo affair, after post a photo of the two. The PP, through its leader, Alberto Nuñez Feijóoinsisted that the departure of the president the socialist is resignation.
In an informal chat with the press during a stopover in Oman, en route to India, where he will be these days official visitSánchez said this photo published in the newspaper El Mundo is one of thousands taken with people attending festive events. “I did not exchange a single word with this man.neither in a meeting nor in a conversation,” declared the President of the Government.
“You don’t choose who you take a photo with, but you choose who you go on vacation with.“, he emphasized in reference to photos from years ago of the leader of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóonext to the drug dealer Golden Martial.
Victor de Aldama is a key figure in the alleged corruption plot that the justice system is investigating in what is known as Koldo affairthe adviser to the former minister Jose Luis Abaloswhich is also under investigation. Ábalos, in fact, could be another alleged key figure in the plot that justice is investigating. The investigating judge in charge of the case requested it from the Supreme Court (the former socialist leader is a deputy, therefore qualified).
All these circumstances have provoked an intense political offensive on the part of the PP, so much so that the photo published in El Mundo this weekend, allegedly taken by Koldo García, was received by the leadership of the popular party as encouragement. The leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, demanded this Sunday that the President of the Government give a press conference to clarify the type of relationship he had with Aldama and that he resign.
He did so at a New Generations event, where he said: “We already know that Mr. 1 was not passing by and that Mr. Aldama had VIP access to the President of Government“. Feijóo took the opportunity to unite the Koldo case with the Errejón case and proclaim that “the Spanish government today is divided between two sectors: those suspected of having committed crimes and those suspected of concealing crimes, and it’s unbearable“.
The PSOE’s response
The PSOE responded to the publication of the photo of the president with Aldama with a one and a half minute video in which photographs of the socialist leader with various people appear. Under an intermittent title “Exclusive” (sic) and the caption “the photo which proves that they know each other”, the Socialist Party has drawn up a selection of photos that citizens identified by their first names have taken at a given moment with the president . of the Government.
Likewise, senior government and party officials joined the campaign, such as the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente. From his X account, he encouraged network users to publish photographs of famous personalities. “Have you ever asked a celebrity for a photo while taking advantage of it to coincide with an event? Do these photos prove anything more than your desire to have a photo with that person?” he wrote . The minister adds: “For every photo you put below with a famous person, I put one of mine. Let’s see how many people we have friends with“.
And that’s what he did. Puente, always in response to users, published photos of himself with Bertín Osborne, Miguel Poveda, Fernando Alonso, Boris Izaguirre, Gloria Gaynor, Ian Gibson, Amaral or Juanma Iturriaga.
The Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolanoswith a photo with rapper Tygaand the head of Digital Transformation, Oscar Lopezwith another with Ed Sheeranalso encouraged the initiative of the Minister of Transport.
In statements to the press from Valladolid, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondoexplained that political representatives, before or after public events, do not choose with whom they take a photo, so ties of intimacy or friendship cannot be inferred from such an image.
But he stressed: “What I believe is that you choose who you go on a yacht with to spend part of your vacation. There is an intimacy and a friendship there“, he said in reference to the photo of the PP leader with a drug trafficker from almost 30 years ago.
