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Updated Saturday, February 24, 2024-22:23

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The former Minister of Transport and socialist deputy José Luis Ábalos has announced that

he refuses to resign and leave his seat in Congress,

although he has admitted that if the 'Koldo case' involving his former advisor had broken out

when he was a member of the Government , yes I would have done it.

"I am a deputy now, I am not a minister.

If this had occurred as a minister, it is evident that I would have had to resign.

And at the time," Ábalos explained in an interview in La Sexta, reported by Europa Press, in the who has stated that, however, he is not now a member of the Executive and that within the scope of his duties as a deputy he has "no responsibility."

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Ábalos recalled that

he is not "accused of anything"

and that he is not involved in any corruption plot, and that in any case he can be criticized for his "political ability to select personnel" and for having trusted people who disappointed him.

"If that disqualifies me politically, in fact, it possibly disqualifies me for life from everything (...) it seems tremendous to me," he continued.