“Corruption in government is growing at a frightening rate. “No honest president would shirk responsibility and remain hidden without showing his face. » This is how the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, reacted to the report of the Civil Guard which accuses the former organizing secretary of the PSOE and former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, for his alleged involvement in the corrupt plot known as the “Koldo Case”. Feijóo does not propose any measures or actions that the PP could take, nor does he give any clues about when he will summon Pedro Sánchez to the Senate Commission of Inquiry.
Feijóo does not even expressly name the president of the government in the brief video statement, without questions from journalists, that the party sent to the media from Warsaw (Poland), where it visited Prime Minister Donald Tusk. “In recent weeks, we have witnessed a gradual deterioration of the political situation in our country,” said the opposition leader. “Budgets are neither presented nor negotiated at any price. Everything is decided in Switzerland or nothing is approved,” he said about the parliamentary weakness of the government. “Anyone who disagrees is persecuted and problems are denied so that they cannot be resolved,” he adds.
“And if all this wasn’t enough, corruption in government is growing at a frightening rate. No honest president would shirk responsibility and stay hidden without showing his face,” he said. Even today, Pedro Sánchez assured journalists’ questions from the Vatican, where he visited the Pope: “There will be no impunity, whoever does it will have to pay.”
Feijóo assured that “more than three years have passed since July 2021 without any explanation being given”, in reference to Sánchez. “Never has a corruption scandal in Spain affected so many ministries and so many state institutions,” he added. “Never has a Prime Minister lied so much to the Spanish people,” he said. “Now the truth is starting to emerge through judicial information and no one can stop or control it,” he said.
The message, which lasts only two and a half minutes, asks “all Spaniards and, therefore, also many socialist voters and parties that continue to support the government” to ask themselves if “all this is acceptable”. “Is this situation sustainable in our country? Can this government solve some of the problems of the Spanish people or is it only dealing with their personal and legal problems? Has this government served the Spanish people or used them? “The answer is clear. This government is not able to serve our country and I will not stop working to change it,” he assures.
Feijóo concludes: “This country deserves a chance to benefit from the exemplarity that Mr. Sánchez and his government lack. Unfortunately, governing in Spain in recent years has become an exercise in hiding corruption.”
