Marta Belver Madrid
Madrid
Updated Monday, February 26, 2024-11:22
'Koldo Case' An arrest, a puncture, a trip to Mexico and a devastating contract: the signs that point to Ábalos
Politics The PP designs a parliamentary "ordeal" for the PSOE over the 'Koldo case'
The PSOE has demanded that
José Luis Ábalos
deliver his deputy certificate within 24 hours.
"We do not set ourselves up as judges, we are not prosecutors, but there is a political responsibility (...). The corrupt have no place here," argued this Monday the party spokesperson,
Esther Peña
, who stressed that the former minister " "He is not investigated, identified, or charged."
The decision to drop Pedro Sánchez's strong man both in the Ferraz headquarters and in the Government has been made "unanimously" at the meeting of the Federal Executive.
Although at first they justified that they could not ask for the minutes because a member of their team was being investigated, the party leadership began to point the way out to former minister José Luis Ábalos after first information became known that would implicate him directly in the alleged plot to collect million-dollar commissions for the awarding of contracts for the purchase of masks during the Covid pandemic for which
Koldo García Izaguirre
, who was his
right-hand man
when he held the Transportation portfolio, was arrested a week ago.
Pedro Sánchez himself also implicitly joined the public pressure for the Valencian politician to renounce his deputy status by defending that his arrival at La Moncloa through a motion of censure in 2018 was produced by "the need to end with the corruption of the PP".
"I want to reaffirm that the fight against corruption must be relentless, no matter where it comes from and whoever falls (...). He who does it pays," he stated this Saturday during his speech at an event of the Socialist International.