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Madrid

Updated Tuesday, March 12, 2024-13:58

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The Senate will approve the creation of an investigative commission into the

Koldo case

, the scheme to collect commissions in contracts for the sale of masks during the pandemic, which had the

Ministry of Public Works

as its epicenter under the mandate of José Luis Ábalos, and will do so with the vote in favor of the PSOE and all its allies.

The commission would have prospered in any case given the absolute majority of the PP in the Chamber, but on this occasion all the political formations join the initiative of the

popular parties

, which, however, will try when the work plan that is debated and approved is It will govern the investigations that are extended to all contracts carried out by any Public Administration during the pandemic period.

PP senator

Luis Santamaría

has defended the proposal, insisting that "what about Koldo, what about Armengol, what about Marlaska, what about Illa, what about Ángel Víctor Torres and what about Montero" is "disgusting corruption."

And he added: "Also about Sánchez" who "intends to humiliate the State and the Spaniards with his pacts with the independence movement" and "cover the ignominy of Puigdemont."

"The way Sánchez and Sanchismo are in politics is political corruption," he stated.

In relation to this last reproach, the representative of the PP has accused the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, of "crawling like a worm."

Santamaría has reproached the Government's allies for their "complicit silence" in the face of socialist corruption because, he said, "it is profitable for them."

And then he added that the PP is determined to "raise the rugs under which the miseries of Sanchismo accumulate" and has warned that "no one will stop it with lies or smoke screens."

The senator has asked the socialists to "abandon the moral holidays they are going through" and has stressed: "Sánchez and Koldo are two sides of the same coin."

Later, his colleague

María José Pardo

has also asked that the

Delcy case

and the meetings of Begoña Gómez, the president's wife, with those responsible for

Globalia

be investigated .

Investigate "all cases"

In response to Santamaría's intervention, socialist senator

Juan Espadas

has revealed that his group wants the investigation to be expanded to all mask contracts, something that the PP has opposed.

Espadas has insisted that the PSOE wants to show citizens its "different attitude" towards cases of corruption.

"We will measure their coherence and political cynicism," warned the socialist, who has brought to light the case of alleged tax fraud by Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner.

Espadas has asked the

popular people

if they plan to "destroy the

Tax Agency

's computers with hammers ."

On behalf of IU, Senator

Carla Antonelli

has defended that "all cases" be investigated and has reproached the PP for refusing to do so.

She has also referred to the case of tax fraud involving Ayuso's partner, whom she has accused of living in an apartment paid for with money swindled from the Treasury.

The PNV, through the mouth of its senator

Estefanía Beltrán de Heredia

, has opted for "transparency" and although it has assured that the objective of the commission is to "wear down the Government", it supports it to "give an account to the citizens of what should not be be the policy."

He has also voted in favor of the Junts Commission.

His representative,

Joan Baptista Bagué,

has stressed that his formation is not part of any political bloc, but has reproached the PP for its investigative zeal "being intermittent."

He has also brought up the amnesty to accuse the PP of trying to hinder it in the Upper House.

Bildu, for its part, has asked the PP for "a little modesty" and the PSOE for "forcefulness" against corruption.

The Bildu senator has accused the

popular ones

of dedicating part of their time "to committing crimes."

Josu Estarrona

's words

have sparked a real fight in the Plenary.

However, the nationalist party has also voted in favor.

ERC, with arguments similar to those of Bildu, has predicted that the Senate commission will only achieve more disaffection.