The PP asks the president of the Court of Auditors to give explanations for not having submitted the minutes of its deliberations

The Popular Parliamentary Group of the Congress of Deputies requested this Friday the appearance of the President of the Court of Auditors, Enriqueta Chicano, at the Joint Commission for Relations with the Control Body so that she gives “the appropriate explanations on the delay” in the provision of the documentation required by the Senate within the framework of the Commission of Inquiry of the Upper House into the public procurement of the pandemic linked to the intermediation of the former advisor to the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García, investigated by allegations of corruption within the National Court.

On June 3, the Senate asked the President of the Court of Auditors for various documents, including the minutes of the deliberations and votes of various reports on Covid which were discussed in the plenary session of the audit body. public. Chicano informed Congress and the Senate that these reports were unanimously approved, although one of them was adopted with one vote against by one of the councilors and another with up to nine abstentions, as published in this newspaper.

Four months later, the Court of Auditors has not provided the information requested by the President of the Senate, Pedro Rollán. At the end of September, he sent a draft report to the administrators in which he positioned himself against the transmission of the required information, arguing that “this has the character of secrecy within the meaning of article 5 of the law relating to the operation of the Court of Auditors (LFTCu), without this legal provision having to yield to a request from a parliamentary committee, taking into account the balance of interests at stake.

The Popular Parliamentary Group, in a document signed by the spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Miguel Tellado, requested that Chicano appear to explain the delay in the delivery of said information on emergency contracts during the pandemic which concerned public contracts tuned to the instrument. company Soluciones de Gestión in which Koldo García was able to play the role of mediator.