The Board of the Koldo case commission in Congress has summoned for this coming Monday, 24 hours after the Catalan elections, the president of the Lower House and former president of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, and two former senior officials of that regional Executive. – which paid 1.4 million euros to Soluciones de Gestión, the company involved in the plot – within the new round of appearances to investigate the alleged irregularities committed with the purchase of medical supplies during the pandemic.

Last March, the former Balearic president denied having received “orders” or “pressure” from the Koldo plot to acquire material or demand the return of part of it, although she did not clarify who in the Ministry of Public Works advised them to contract with Management Solutions.

As reported by the president of the commission, the socialist Alejandro Soler Mur, the Board of this body has agreed to start these three appearances on the contracts awarded by the Balearic Government at 11:00 a.m. with Manuel Palomino, who was director of the Health Service of the islands (IB-Salut) during the pandemic. Already in the afternoon session, the current spokesperson for the PSOE in the Balearic Parliament, Iago Negueruela, who was Minister of Labour, Commerce and Industry of the Balearic Governments between 2015 and 2023, will be interrogated, and that of Francina Armengol, who has been for 6:00 p.m.

Armengol has always maintained that all the offers that came to them for the sale of material during the pandemic were passed on to the technicians of the Balearic Health Service, who were the ones who reviewed prices and materials and decided whether the contracts were finally made.

The paradox is that the Popular Party, which even asked for Armengol’s resignation as president of the Chamber because it considered her a possible “necessary collaborator” in the plot, has voted against her appearance before the commission, as explained by parliamentary sources. “It is evident that when the appearance is scheduled for the day after the Catalan elections it is so that it passes without pain or glory and that Armengol’s contradictions go unnoticed,” criticized the PP spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, for whom the president of the Congress “is in a lot of trouble.”

“She is not capable of justifying her decisions and the PSOE and its partners have wanted to make an appearance that is comfortable for her, to protect her,” continued Tellado, who has announced that if the former Balearic president does not give explanations in the Congressional commission, the PP He will call her to the Senate, where those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have an absolute majority and chair the corresponding commission.

For Tellado, Armengol “is not qualified to exercise the position she occupies as the third authority of the State, but only to represent Sanchismo, which overrides justice,” as the spokesperson has proclaimed.

The number two of the Balearic Government, Iago Negueruela, recently explained that the masks purchased from the company Soluciones de Gestión (involved in the Koldo García case) were supported by the purchase invoice, the receipt of the material and several emails, and They were exclusively for home use and not for toilets.

The masks requested were FFP2/KN95 for home use as stated in the invoice of April 29 issued by the Balearic Ib-Salut and the claim for “culpable breach of contract” was initiated three years later, on July 6, 2023, at verify in 2020 that they were of inferior quality and that there was a price difference of 2.07 euros per unit.