The PP asked for explanations from the President of Government, Pedro Sanchezregarding the statement made this Thursday before the National Court of the businessman Víctor de Aldama, commissioner of Koldo affairwho claimed to have made cash payments to leaders and former leaders of the PSOE.
“We deserve explanations from the President of the Government, who is primarily responsible for everything that is happening. All the information points to him,” declared the PP spokesperson in the halls of Congress. Borja Semperafter learning the first information about the Aldama declaration.
For his part, the parliamentary spokesperson for popularMiguel Tellado, spoke in X: “Finally, he pulled the cover,” in reference to Aldama’s statement.
More precisely, the alleged commission agent of Koldo affair He said he paid 400,000 euros in cash to former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos and 250,000 euros to his then advisor, Koldo García. He also pointed the finger at the current number two of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, assuring that he had sent him an additional 15,000 euros.
Cerdán has already described Aldama’s statements as “lies” and announced that the PSOE would file a complaint against the businessman.
Sémper called Aldama’s remarks “extraordinarily serious” and stressed that the only person who has the capacity to answer and prove what emerges is the person interviewed: the president of the government.
“Just hide, we Spaniards deserve explanations,” Sémper reiterated. The PP considers all information about the affair “stinking” and demanded that the deterioration of the institutions and credibility of the government stop now.
Furthermore, he maintained that in the face of these accusations, “it is not about being advantageous” but rather about obtaining answers to the questions that the majority of Spaniards are asking.
Furthermore, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, wondered if the leader of the PSOE would continue to maintain that he did not know Víctor de Aldama after this businessman affirmed that Pedro Sánchez wanted to meet him and that he thanked him for his efforts as trade attaché for the Mexican state of Oaxaca, during the event where the two posed for a photo together on February 3, 2019.
“Corruption operated in his government, in his party and in his family,” Gamarra said on his social networks.
