Socialist spokesperson Esther Peña responded this Sunday to the complaint announced by Cuca Gamarra against the PSOE for illegal financing, declaring that Feijóo “is the friend of a drug trafficker”.
The PSOE spokesperson thus used the photo taken by Feijóo 29 years ago with Marcial Dorado (who then only had legal proceedings opened for tobacco smuggling) to respond to the legal offensive launched by the PP.
After the Extraordinary Steering Committee of the PP held this Sunday, its general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, announced that his party would file a complaint tomorrow against the PSOE before the National Court for alleged crimes of illegal financing, influence peddling and corruption.
A confidant of the VAT fraud plot on the purchase of hydrocarbons led by Víctor de Aldama said he participated in the delivery of bags of 90,000 euros at the socialist headquarters of Ferraz.
This testimony is the basis of the complaint that the PP plans to file before the Central Court of Instruction number 5 of the National Court, whose owner, Santiago Pedraz, is already investigating the events, for which he sent the commissioner on Thursday prison. . Victor de Aldama (also involved in the Koldo affair).
After Gamarra’s announcement, socialist spokesperson Esther Peña indicated this Sunday that Feijóo has no “moral authority” to demand explanations for cases of corruption: “It is an anomaly in Europe that someone, with a drug-trafficking friend, aspires to preside over a government,” he said.
Peña added this to the PP “30 files remain open30 trials where I hope we can finally find out who Mr. Rajoy was. On the side of the Socialist Party, we are not losing hope,” he quipped.
Meanwhile, Podemos became the only partner of the “investiture bloc” to speak out on the latest known revelations from the government. Koldo affair.
During the demonstration in favor of the right to housing held this Sunday in Madrid, the secretary general of Podemos, Ione Belarra, demanded “credible” explanations from the PSOE on the corruption plot, reports Europa Press.
“It is absolutely implausible to think that the number two of the PSOE, the boss of Ferraz,” he said in reference to former minister José Luis Ábalos, “I put my hand in the box and the PSOE as a whole knew nothing“.
“It’s not credible,” he added, “they need to give a lot more explanation.” However, the leader of Podemos blamed this corruption affair on “bipartisanship”.
