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Updated Monday, April 8, 2024-11:19

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Pedro Sánchez is not on the first list of appearances that the PP has prepared for the Senate investigation commission on the 'Koldo case'. "For now". The 'popular' plan is to leave this parliamentary bullet for later, depending on "the evolution of events", sources from the main opposition party told EL MUNDO.

That is to say, his appearance is not ruled out "at all", nor is he ruled out calling his wife, Begoña Gómez. But the PP wants to play with the times and now concentrate the first interventions on the ministers of the departments that contracted with the alleged corruption plot led by Koldo García Izaguirre, former advisor to the then Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos.

According to the same sources, they will call Fernando Grande - Marlaska (Interior) and Óscar Puente (Transport) -, as well as the former presidents of the Canary Islands (Ángel Víctor Torres, current Minister of Territorial Policy) and the Balearic Islands (Francina Armengol, president of Congress) .

And to the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, who would have known about the irregularities of the plot in 2022 and did not denounce them in public, according to the PP.

In that sense, the list, which will be registered at 1:30 p.m. this Monday in the Upper House, does include the appearance of Salvador Illa before the Catalan elections on May 12. He will be, along with Armengol, the star event of this commission.

The PSC candidate must account for the contracts signed by the Ministry of Health, when he was the head of the portfolio, with the companies in the scheme. Illa is obliged to go to the commission, but he could refuse to testify. It happens that in the middle of the campaign it will be difficult for both him and the PP to miss the opportunity to confront the polls in the background.

In the case of the President of the Government, the sources consulted assume that, if details of the investigation into the Koldo case continue to be known, or of his wife's alleged business dealings, Pedro Sánchez will also end up "parading" through the Upper House.

Asked about this upon her arrival at the Senate, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, wanted to leave everything up in the air: "It is an open list." And she has given a clue: "We will move forward with more appearances based on the information we have.