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Updated Tuesday, February 27, 2024-00:07

The pressure for

José Luis Ábalos

to hand over his deputy certificate, after resigning yesterday as president of the Interior Commission in Congress, is due to a firewall strategy that is not only opportunistic, but manifestly insufficient.

The efforts of the Government and the PSOE to isolate the former minister - and to activate the ventilator by promoting a generic commission in Congress on the purchase of medical supplies during the pandemic - deny a clear reality: that the

case

Koldo

It directly affects the heart of the Executive and the party.

Because Ábalos is not just another figure within the PSOE, but rather the man who encouraged

Pedro Sanchez

in his reconquest of the socialist general secretary, the man to whom Sánchez himself entrusted the PSOE apparatus and, in turn, the man to whom the president granted the ministry

with more capacity to allocate public funds to companies

.

So if Ábalos can be attributed, at a minimum, political responsibility

in choosing

and also

in watching

, for appointing and maintaining as an advisor of his strict confidence, on the State payroll, a person of the stature of

Koldo Garcia

What can be said about who decided to give Ábalos such great power both in the Government and in the party?

The news that is coming to light regarding the alleged plot to illegally collect commissions for public purchases of masks during the pandemic clearly points to the former Minister of Transportation.

As we revealed today, the indications to contract with the company Soluciones de Gestión came from "the minister's environment", as stated by several officials from State Ports, Adif and the Ministry of Transport before the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard.

Added to this are the facts investigated in the Canary Islands, where the current minister

Angel Victor Torres

He even modified the contracts so that his Government would pay the company linked to Koldo with EU funds.

In fact,

Most of the awards that public institutions closed with this company were designed using European funds.

, so the scandal transcends Spanish territory and will have to be investigated by Europe.

The struggle maintained by Ábalos, who, defiantly, refuses to abandon his status as a deputy and therefore as a person subject to jurisdiction before Justice, sows even more doubts about his responsibility in this scandal.

In any case, and regardless of how this negotiation ends, the former minister's resistance presents a second derivative:

If Ábalos moved to the Mixed Group, the PSOE would be left without a very valuable seat from its slim majority of power

.

The situation once again shows the extreme weakness of a Government supported by crazy arithmetic, contrary to the common good and dependent on spurious interests.

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