Mónica Oltra, in 'Salvados': "The PSOE bought the discourse of the extreme right"

The former vice president of the Valencian Community Mónica Oltra lives apart from politics.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
11 December 2022 Sunday 07:32
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Mónica Oltra, in 'Salvados': "The PSOE bought the discourse of the extreme right"

The former vice president of the Valencian Community Mónica Oltra lives apart from politics. She collects unemployment, about 1,300 euros a month, and she enjoys things that she missed before. She wants to sign up for a welding course, but she doesn't have the leap into national politics in mind. If she returns, she will do so to "contribute from wherever it is so that the policies of change continue to take place" in her land. But she set out to break her silence six months after her resignation, she does so by shooting against the PSOE and, hurt, by the disappointment of some close to her.

Oltra talks about the judicial and the political today in the Salvados de La Sexta program (9:25 p.m.). The leader of Compromís, accused of the alleged cover-up of the case of abuse by her ex-husband of a minor under guardianship, pointed out the day she resigned under pressure from the president of the Community, the socialist Ximo Puig, as the cause of her decision: "I am not going to be his alibi," he said. This Sunday she will abound in it. She accuses the PSOE of having bought the story built from the extreme right and reproaches it for threatening to throw her out of the Government, something that would have broken the coalition.

So she left pushed by political circumstances, although she admits that President Puig never asked her to. “She let him see it,” she assures, through journalists “from the Court”, from “the ‘sources of’”, as she calls them, who took it upon themselves to show her the exit door. But she considers, as then, that she has not done anything and that her ethical line cannot be set by the courts.

As then, it bothers her that she is equated with the cases of corruption of Valencian leaders that she denounced. "It has nothing to do with it! I have not done anything illegal or immoral, I acted with integrity, ”she protests.

Oltra did not inform Puig of his decision to resign. Knowing the "field", she is convinced that if she had done it, there would have been leaks. And it is in the trust chapter where she throws some darts. She assures that she missed the call from some colleagues after her resignation, and from Yolanda Díaz and Ada Colau: "I think they wrote to me, I think, I don't know, I would have to look at it...". However, she changes her gesture with Mónica García, spokesperson for Más Madrid: “She always finds the time to call. Two days ago we talked for a long time."