Justice begins to surround Podemos due to the shadows of suspicion accredited around its financing. The imputation of the party and part of its leadership by box B constitutes a turning point in the investigation of the accounts of the purple formation. The step taken by the head of the Court of Instruction number 42 of Madrid, Juan José Escalonilla, comes after the complaint of José Manuel Calvente, a former lawyer of this party, for the set up planned to force his dismissal. In addition to the imputation of Podemos as a legal person, it is added to that of Juan Manuel del Olmo, responsible for Podemos campaigns and a close collaborator of Pablo Iglesias, as well as the treasurer and the party manager, for possible embezzlement and unfair administration, among others possible crimes. The judge also ordered other proceedings in the framework of this case, such as requiring documentation ranging from accounting to tables of workers' salaries.

Echenique's reaction reveals the extent to which a party that gave regeneration lessons to other political organizations now finds itself before the mirror of its own performance. The parliamentary spokesman for the populists assured that the accusations "will come to nothing" and charged the media again. A responsible politician would have limited himself to pronouncing a defense of the presumption of innocence. The leaders of Podemos cannot do this because they themselves have skipped this basic principle in a rule of law when judges have imputed political opponents. In fact, the Churches party, as a result of Gürtel , even asked for the resignation of all the leaders investigated. In the end, what underlies, as Calvente himself denounced in this newspaper, is the assembly of the Dina case and the alleged irregularities that mark the finances of a formation that today is part of the Government. In fact, Del Olmo is a senior position in the Cabinet of the Director of Strategy and Communication of the Second Vice Presidency of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda.

It should be remembered that Calvente was fired last December after being denounced by another of the party's lawyers, Marta Flor, of sexual and labor harassment, a complaint that has recently been filed by another judge in Madrid when no evidence has been found. The dismissal came when he was carrying out an internal investigation into the accounting irregularities in Podemos, such as unjustified or unforeseen expenses in the party's budgets or also bonuses. Likewise, the investigations are directed against Neurona, a consultant close to Chavismo that has worked for Podemos in several electoral campaigns.

Neither the demagoguery of Iglesias -which splashes not only on his party but on the Government-, nor the excuses to divert attention from his electoral failures, nor the disqualifications of Echenique towards the press can cover the shame of a party cornered by opacity and suspicions of corruption in your accounting.

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