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The PP has decided to organically support María Dolores de Cospedal, accused of alleged crimes of embezzlement, influence peddling and bribery in the Kitchen case.

Despite the fact that the party's statutes give rise to opening an informative file and despite the fact that, in a similar situation, it was opened to former minister Jorge Fernández, the 'popular' have decided not to take any action against the former general secretary and former Minister of Defense.

The Committee on Rights and Guarantees of the PP, chaired by Andrea Levy, met on Friday afternoon to analyze the situation in Cospedal.

"In accordance with the party's statutes, the Committee has agreed not to open an information file," PP sources have revealed, because the alleged conduct does not result from "the exercise of a public or representative office."

The PP claims that article 22.1 of the Statutes stipulates the opening of a file "in the event that an affiliate incurs in any form of corruption in the exercise of a public or representative office." What the PP does not say is that the article does not end there, but also stipulates the opening of a file for members who do not meet ethical standards. And what the PP does not indicate is that Cospedal acted as a public position: president of Castilla-La Mancha. In fact, the judge has indicted his chief of staff at the Junta for the same acts.

But the Rights and Guarantees Committee understands that "it will be the court in charge of the investigation that must determine whether Mrs. Cospedal has engaged in" corruption "and in any criminal offense or not." If the judge opened an oral trial, then the PP should open not an information file, but a disciplinary one, directly.

What the PP is waiting for is Cospedal's "material" imputation. In an interview this Friday in RNE, the secretary of Justice of the 'popular' has indicated that "we are before a call from a judge" and then "there will be a statement" and then "he will have to determine if there is an accusation, not only formal as is the case if not material ". It will be at that moment, López said, when it will be decided whether to open a file, "like any other militant."

As EL MUNDO advanced, the PP has been dodging the rigorous interpretation of the statutes with the hope that Cospedal will be imputed in a short time.

In addition to this internal blow, the party supported her in preparing for her failed appearance in the Congress of Deputies.

In fact, positions of the Popular Parliamentary Group accompanied her upon her arrival at the Cortes.

In addition to the interpretation on the opening of the information file, the PP assures that the alleged infractions of the former leader would have prescribed.

"The Rights and Guarantees Committee points out that article 19.2 of the Statutes establishes the limitation periods for the alleged infractions committed by an affiliate since they could be committed," the PP sources point out.

Well, that article sets maximum limitation periods of five years, and the events of the Kitchen plot occurred mainly in 2013 and 2014 and, therefore, everything would have prescribed for internal purposes. In addition, this precept of the statutes adds that the Rights and Guarantees Committee "may suspend compliance with the firm sanction imposed on an affiliate, when it is considered that there are exceptional circumstances that advise it, and that they must be motivated by resolution of this organism".

The Committee has recalled that it is "the party body responsible for both the interpretation of the statutes and the application of the disciplinary regime, as well as ensuring the exemplary nature of public positions without detriment to the presumption of innocence pending the corresponding judicial decisions ".

That is, the decision has nothing to do with Pablo Casado.

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