The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has confirmed the filing of a complaint to bring to the Prosecutor's Office the possible commission of crimes in the process of establishing Más País to compete in the general elections of November 2019.
This has been confirmed by the mayor himself after the crossing of mutual accusations of corruption that he exchanged with the spokeswoman for Más Madrid, Rita Maestre, in the last plenary session of the City Council.
"We want this complaint to have the guarantees for an investigation and we want it to be solid and consistent," said the Madrid councilor.
Almeida recalled that Maestre said yesterday that this issue was "monumental bullshit", to which the mayor replied that "it doesn't seem like bullshit", but clarified that "it is monumental that a party to stand for elections simulates the holding of a assembly where it says that a series of points have been held that have been approved and it seems that this is not true".
In addition, the Madrid councilor commented that they took him to a notary and elevated him to a public document, which "could also constitute a crime of falsifying a public document."
Therefore, "we want to study it carefully, establish what has happened, see who are the people who have intervened and, from there, transfer it to the Prosecutor's Office." In this sense, Almeida pointed out that "everything points to the fact that a crime of document falsification could have occurred", because "today we know that he became a notary".
The mayor recalled that "it has been admitted and recognized that there was no assembly, that the points stated in that notarial document that had been approved were not approved." In addition, everything was justified because he wanted to run in the November 2019 elections.
For this reason, Almeida affirmed that "it cannot be dismissed as monumental nonsense" as Maestre said, but that "pertinent and adequate explanations must be given". "You have to show your face in front of the people of Madrid because the person in charge of the Treasury acknowledges by WhatsApp that there was no assembly, nor were the agreements adopted and what happens is that there was a lot of hurry."
Faced with this situation, the legal team of the City Council will "study the matter" in order to file a complaint "in conditions" and to be able to determine who the interveners are. "What would seem reasonable" is that the leaders of Más Madrid/Más País had to go testify at the Prosecutor's Office to say whether or not they participated in that assembly.
In this regard, he said that "the most logical thing would be for all of those to have already shown their faces", because "we have no explanations for Íñigo Errejón, nor for Mónica García, nor for Rita Maestre", who "refuse to show their faces before all the people of Madrid and they refuse to show their faces to explain if this situation actually took place".
