osé Manuel Calvente pointed out Pablo Iglesias today two days after the head of the 42nd Investigative Court of Madrid, Juan José Escalonilla, charged United We as a legal person in the case investigating its financing. In several messages posted on Twitter, the former party lawyer assured that "Podemos is a victim" and that "he should pursue these alleged scoundrels where the party leader would not be so incompetent as not to know what was happening in his party, presumably clear, "he said, adding that Podemos" should not go down in history as a party tainted by the corruption of four alleged scoundrels.

Calvente compared the Podemos case with previous corruption cases. «We are not before Gürtel or Filesa. Much worse. We are presumably before presumed scoundrels who have allegedly reached into the party box for their presumed benefit and that of their presumed friends. And he clarified: "Unlike all cases of party corruption in Spain, in Podemos we would not be faced with the alleged corruption of a party, but rather with an alleged corruption within the party, an alleged illegal financing of some leaders." Finally, the former lawyer for Podemos called for the militancy to act in the face of recent events: “I should say 'enough is enough'. You can't spend another minute with people under investigation running the game. A change of direction is urgent. For the democratic health of this great country that is Spain and the institutions that some want to destroy.

Shortly before Calvente published those messages, Podemos launched a network campaign against him. The purple ones cling to the fact that during his statement -41 minutes to which La Sexta had access-, it is Calvente himself who discredits himself by speaking of "rumor mill" when referring to the alleged illegal financing. For Ione Belarra, deputy spokesperson for United We Can, “it is very serious and very dangerous for democracy that they can open a judicial case because a man has heard 'rumors'. He himself acknowledges it in his statement, which is the only 'proof', "he said on Twitter. The party's spokesman in Congress, Pablo Echenique, also focused his defense on "rumors" yesterday, who stated on social networks that "they have nothing", referring to possible information on irregular financing and that "they don't care" because " against We can anything goes. Set up another fake trial (another one) with no evidence other than rumors in order to launch the umpteenth media campaign of defamation, "he said.

Today, the court investigating the case agreed to provide the party and Vox - the accusation in the case - with the full statement of the complainant when verifying that the first CD "does not include the entirety."

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