Marta Belver Madrid
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-02:16
Senate The PP confirms that it will take Armengol to the Koldo case commission and drops that the next one will be Sánchez
'Koldo Case' chronology, a plot that worked at full throttle during the pandemic
The resumption of the political course after the Easter break began this Monday with the constitution - at the request of the PP - of the Senate investigation commission in which the
Koldo case
will be addressed . Today the same thing will happen in Congress with another parliamentary body in which - this time at the request of the PSOE - emergency health contracting during the Covid pandemic will be supervised in parallel, starting with the collection of million-dollar commissions that pivot on the advisor of the former Minister José Luis Ábalos, who was Pedro Sánchez's trusted man until 2021.
However, both the central Executive and Ferraz's leadership are trying to divert the information focus towards the management of the communities chaired by the PP that, in compliance with their coalition pacts with Vox, have promoted the repeal of their laws. autonomous communities of Democratic Memory. In addition, the strategy of demanding the resignation of the Madrid leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for the alleged tax fraud of her partner, is insisted on, now amplified with the demand for responsibilities for the public money received by a private health company that they place as "the main client" of
Alberto González Amador
.
In relation to the first of the issues, the Council of Ministers plans to study today the actions it is going to take against Aragon, the Valencian Community and Castilla y León for promoting the replacement of their autonomous laws on Democratic Memory with others that "contradict or question » the national level in aspects such as the condemnation of Francoism and the exhumations of victims. Although the previous step will consist of bilateral meetings with the administrations in question, in La Moncloa they assume that no agreement will be reached and that they will end up resorting to the Constitutional Court (TC).
The Government's thesis is that the PP and Vox are trying to "whitewash Francoism" by equating "the years of totalitarianism and dictatorship with a period of a democratic regime such as the Second Republic." «Four decades of absence of freedoms, deprivation of rights, disappearances, torture... cannot be equated with a democratic period. "That is inadmissible," warned Ángel Víctor Torres, head of the Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory portfolio, in an interview on
TVE
in which he announced the beginning of the institutional offensive.
The first phase of this process will focus on Aragon, which already approved the repeal of its law on February 15, while those of the Valencian Community and Castilla y León are in the process. The Council of Ministers is expected to analyze today a legal report with the alleged non-compliance with state regulations that entails its replacement by a "concord plan" for the "recognition of victims who suffered persecution or violence for political, ideological or religious belief reasons." ».
The Government of Jorge Azcón responded yesterday that the repeal of its law has been "legally impeccable." For this reason, he has already announced that he will not accept "the holding of a bilateral commission on this matter", since "there is no basis" in the legal discrepancies raised by the central Executive, reports
Ismael Poveda
.
In parallel, the PSOE of Madrid yesterday requested to appear in the popular accusation in the investigation opened against Ayuso's partner and four other people for alleged tax fraud and a crime of forgery in a commercial document. Its general secretary,
Juan Lobato
, justified that the objective of this request is "to have information about a procedure" that he believes could have a link with the Community of Madrid.
Focus on Ayuso
The national spokesperson for the socialists,
Esther Peña
, tried to support this strategy by adding a battery of questions: «Was Mrs. Ayuso sitting on the government councils that approved payments of 400 million euros to the
Quirón Group
? Did Mrs. Ayuso know that the Quirón group was the best client, coincidentally, of her partner? Can Mrs. Ayuso assure us that she does not reside in a home paid for with part of the money from the tax crimes recognized by her partner? Can Mrs. Ayuso assure that she does not currently enjoy other luxuries whose origin is in these tax crimes? Can she explain to us why she lied to all of us at her appearance to give supposed explanations? Does Mrs. Ayuso know that her partner billed four times more with Quirón Salud since they started their relationship?
At the Ferraz headquarters they emphasize that the resignation of the Madrid president is a "question of health, ethics and respect for the Spanish people, even if it were only for those 400 million" paid to a private company "should have gone to public health." . Likewise, they consider that it is a case that has acquired a "life of its own" beyond the investigation into the purchase of medical supplies that is going to be carried out in Congress and they do not rule out any scenario, such as denouncing the popular leader before the
Office .
of Conflicts of Interest
.