/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/NOUWOEQKJADO47FNZ7MUAFCRWY.jpg "Alberto Núñez Feijóo insists on pointing out the President of the Government in the ‘Koldo case’: “There is a siege on Sánchez that is getting closer and closer” | Spain")
The PP’s strategy to erode the Government by putting all the firewood on the grill for the Koldo case He ran into a stumbling block this Thursday. In an order made public this morning, Judge Ismael Moreno has pointed to former Minister José Luis Ábalos as an “intermediary” in the alleged mask purchase network. But he also indicates that his former advisor Koldo García Izaguirre boasted of having contacted the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP, Miguel Tellado. After learning of this latest information, Feijóo has gone to the Senate to present a parliamentary initiative in an appearance without questions. During his intervention, and without evidence, the head of the opposition insisted on the idea that the President of the Government “knew what was happening” in the alleged corruption plot and “covered it up.”
“There is not a single Spaniard who believes that this takes Mr. Sánchez by surprise. And there is not a single Spaniard who does not see that there is a siege on Mr. Sánchez that is getting bigger and closer,” the popular leader indicated following the news published. “He hid the complaints for years,” he has maintained, basing his assertions on journalistic information not verified in judicial or police documents. “Sánchez has to answer to the Spaniards what political responsibility and what personal responsibility he has in the plot that we are learning regarding,” he continued.
In the order dated February 7, Judge Ismael Moreno points out that Koldo García Izaguirre boasted of having contacted Tellado and a person called “Alberto” in the course of his efforts to paralyze a claim from the Balearic Government. Izaguirre mentions an alleged meeting with the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP that is not confirmed in the record. Just a few minutes later, Tellado has flatly denied any connection. “We have not had any meeting with Koldo García. We have not even had a telephone conversation. We believe it is a smokescreen,” the spokesperson said in an interview on Antena 3. Upon entering the Senate, journalists asked Feijóo whether Tellado was related or not to the alleged commission agents. “Obviously not,” he declared.
But the PSOE has not been satisfied with the answers given by the popular people, following the exchange of accusations experienced in the control session on Wednesday. In the halls of Congress, the second vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, later demanded more clarifications from the Popular Party. “What the PP does have to explain today is whether Mr. Tellado really met with these businessmen or met with Mr. Koldo, and what they talked regarding and what type of negotiations they carried out,” Montero stated. “What the PP does have to explain today is who Alberto is, the intermediary who allegedly appears in the summary and who was in contact with this plot and, therefore, the consequences that may arise from this,” he added.
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Subsequently, at 2:00 p.m., the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, offered a press conference not previously called, in Congress, to once once more charge once morest the Government with arguments very similar to those of Feijóo. Gamarra has described the Koldo case of “Sánchez case” y He has also ruled out any connection between the PP and the alleged plot. “The order speaks of the date of January 10. That day there was a session in the Senate and Mr. Tellado and Mr. Feijóo were there. And we don’t have twins. Stop trying to put the fan on, because you won’t find anything.” The order, however, alludes to the fact that on December 2 Koldo García assured the businessman Juan Carlos Cueto, another of the accused, that “they had just called him and that he had arranged to meet Miguel Tellado” and a second person, whom he only mentioned by his first name “Alberto”, the next day, that is, December 3.
In order to disassociate the PP from any involvement with the investigation, Gamarra has slipped that the mention of Tellado by Koldo García Izaguirre might have been caused because Ábalos’ former advisor would have been informed by members of the PSOE or government officials that he was being investigated. And in that way they would also splash the popular ones. “What we also know is that they were perfectly aware that they were being investigated,” he concluded.
Gamarra has also referred to the decision of the Supreme Court to investigate the former president of the Catalan Generalitat Carles Puigdemont for terrorism in the Democratic Tsunami case. “Pedro Sánchez cannot buy the rule of law. We know that he wants to amnesty those on whom he depends, but the rule of law is above him,” said the general secretary of the PP. The order issued this Thursday by the Criminal Chamber of the high court comes following a high source in the popular leadership considered, at a lunch with 16 journalists in Lugo 20 days ago, that it would be difficult to prove that Puigdemont committed a crime of terrorism. following public statements by Feijóo linking the process with terrorism.
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