MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Balearic Government of the socialist Francina Armengol had no connivance with the commission plot of which Koldo García Izaguire, former advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos, was supposedly a part, and the proof is that they denounced a mask contract and activated the claim, according to what sources close to the current president of Congress assure Europa Press.
The PP has asked for Armengol’s resignation as president of Congress, considering that she is “involved” in the “scandal” and that she supported the plot so that she could continue hiring. “Her situation is unsustainable,” they say in the Popular Group.
Armengol’s entourage emphasizes that the contract in question for the acquisition of masks was well made and was endorsed twice by the supervisory bodies, and they maintain that the judicial investigation focuses on the contacts of the plot to make the file expire. claim initiated by the autonomous government of Armengol.
In his opinion, the one who has to give explanations is the current regional president, Marga Prohens, of the PP, who is accused of making the claim initiated by the socialist Government expire, “giving in” to the claims of the ‘Koldo case’ plot. and, therefore, causing possible damage to public coffers.
THEY ARE NOT ‘FAKE’ MASKS
The Armengol team emphasizes that its Government was the one who initiated the claim because, when it received the material, it ordered it to be analyzed and detected that a portion of the masks received did not have the quality for which they were paid, since they did not meet FFP2 standards, but They deny that they were ‘fake masks’ because, in any case, they were valid as surgical ones.
And since they were valid, but of a lower quality than the one agreed upon, only the difference in price between one quality and another was claimed, and not the total. And for this reason, they add, they were stored to be claimed. The claim was presented within the average time that all pandemic administrative files have taken, but of course within the deadline.
His conclusion is that the Armengol Government “was a problem for the plot” and there was no connivance. What’s more, they highlight that, according to the court order, the plot maneuvered with the PP Government so that the file expired this year.
In his opinion, the PP intends to “destabilize the institutions” and “cover up its involvement in the plot”, and its entire demand for resignations is based on the fact that the masks were ‘fake’ when they were not.
THE GOVERNMENT OF PROHENS WAS INFORMED
Last Tuesday, Armengol herself stressed that her Executive “demanded in a timely manner that the company return part of the money” and that when the change of government occurred in the Balearic Islands, the new ‘popular’ Executive was informed of this file.
In statements in Congress, he also demanded that the Government of the ‘popular’ Marga Prohens continue with that file so that the company would have to pay the requested money. Three days later, what those around Armengol are asking is why the current Government of the islands has dropped that claim that the Executive that she presided began to process.
According to the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno in an order dated this month, to which Europa Press has had access, the businessman Juan Carlos Cueto, the alleged ‘mastermind’ of the investigated plot, informed the head of Management Solutions in December, Íñigo Rotaeche, that the Balearic Government “in principle” had no intention of continuing with the claim for the mask contract.