The suspicions weighing on the participation of Jose Luis Abalos inside Koldo affair They were judicially confirmed this Tuesday, after the Supreme Court agreed to open an investigation into the former minister for alleged offenses of membership in a criminal organization, influence peddling, corruption and embezzlement. public.
The dimension of the event is given by recalling that to see a former minister being the subject of an investigation by the Supreme Court for events that occurred during his mandate in government, we must go back to the case of Jose Barrionuevo.
And there are many signs against Ábalos. According to the UCO, an alleged leader of Victor de Aldama He paid the rent for the luxurious house of the former minister’s girlfriend. Ábalos rented a chalet in La Línea de la Concepción that belonged to Aldama. And the Civil Guard emphasizes the “binomial Koldo-Ábalos” as part of the alleged criminal organization whose “corrupting link” would be the businessman.
It is also worth remembering that the burgeoning investigation into Ábalos focuses on the alleged corruption conspiracy linked to the irregular purchase of masks and medical supplies during the pandemic. But the UCO continues its investigationand there are still many questions to be clarified that could involve the socialist even more. Among them, his relationship with Delcy Rodriguez or the circumstances of the rescue of AirEuropa for which the former minister lobbied (and for which, as EL ESPAÑOL revealed, Koldo and Aldama would have received 500,000 euros).
In any case, the lines of defense of each party are already outlined: The government will continue to claim that it knew nothing about what Ábalos was doing with Koldo.and Ábalos will maintain for his part that he knew nothing of what Koldo was doing with Aldama.
It is in itself implausible to think that Pedro Sanchez He was unaware of the actions in which his most trusted person was immersed, knowing that he had been mysteriously fired in 2021 and that he had warned him in 2023 of the bad company the former minister kept. But what is undeniable is the political responsibility of the president in including him in his team.no matter how hard you try to avoid it.
First, in accordance with the moral standard that he himself applied to the Popular Party to remove it from the government, through a motion of censure motivated by a link between the PP and the Gürtel Field much more tangential than that of the PSOE with the Koldo affair.
In this sense, the inclusion in the Supreme Court’s resolution of the paragraph from the presentation of the instructor of the National Court in which he underlined the “main role” of Ábalos, in his dual capacity as minister and secretary of the PSOE Organizationwithin the framework created by the businessman Víctor de Aldama to obtain business with public administrations. Which implies that the High Court accepts this incriminating story.
The investigation into Ábalos therefore means that not only the head of the main government ministry in terms of investment volume is suspected, but also the number two. de facto of the PSOE. And it was Sánchez who appointed him to both positions.
Second, Sánchez’s responsibilities in the Abalos affair They are essential in line with the suspension of the activism of the former minister. Because if the PSOE forced him to leave the parliamentary group after Koldo’s accusation, for not having monitored the behavior of his advisor, Shouldn’t Ábalos’ superior assume similar responsibility when his then lieutenant is soon indicted?
Because the former organizational secretary of the PSOE is by no means a peripheral character, but rather the core of Sánchez’s political biography. He killed the campaign for the primaries and sent it back to the General Secretariat of the PSOE. And it was also he who defended the motion of censure, in search of “exemplarity”, which elevated him to the presidency of the Government.
So to say that Koldo was to Ábalos what Ábalos was to Sánchez is actually quite short.
