If he knew it and did nothing, he is an accomplice by not having reported the facts to justice, and if he did not know it and therefore did not act, he is an accomplice due to negligence in supervising the manipulations that occurred in his closest circle. The PP points directly to the responsibility for action or omission of Pedro Sánchez in the plot of illegal commissions in the Koldo case.
Miguel Tellado appeared this afternoon in Congress to denounce that the departure of José Luis Ábalos from the scene, expelled from the socialist group or renouncing his record as a deputy, will not be a sufficient firewall to shelve an issue that, from his point of view, Seen, it extends beyond the Ministry of Transport and has ramifications in other departments, such as the Interior and Health, and other administrations, such as the governments of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.
According to the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP, the plot being investigated by the justice system, a case in which the popular party has appeared as an accusation, is the most serious case of corruption in the history of the PSOE, as it "hangs from the top" of the party itself. Socialist Party and the "higher echelons" of the Spanish Government and has its origin in the president's circle of confidence.
Ábalos was the secretary of organization, number three in the PSOE organizational chart, as well as Minister of Transport, at the time in which the alleged corrupt plot for the sale of masks led by his advisor Koldo García operated, Tellado has stressed, therefore that the case "far surpasses" both and becomes, at least for the PP, the "Sanchez case."
The unknown lies in knowing the degree of knowledge of these alleged criminal acts that the President of the Government had when he dismissed Ábalos in July 2021, the popular spokesperson has reiterated, for whom "no one believes that he did not know." But if this were the case, this does not exempt Sánchez from responsibility, Tellado stated, since he would have incurred negligence.
It would be worse if, even knowing it, he had not done anything, because then, Tellado has argued, we would be facing the "main political person responsible" for what he has described as "looting." And for this reason the PP demands that Sánchez give explanations as soon as possible, an end for which he has planned a battery of questions to the president in the control session tomorrow, Wednesday, in Congress.
"Sánchez has the same responsibility as Ábalos," maintains the PP, which considers that the head of the Executive will have to explain first of all what was the "real cause" that led him to relieve his Minister of Transport. "What did I know?" Tellado has repeatedly asked himself, who has criticized the "hypocrisy" and "cynicism" of the PSOE when he assures that "he who does it pays" and at the same time promotes an amnesty law to "forgive to criminals in exchange for votes.
In the opinion of the popular spokesperson, after the dismissal of Ábalos there could have been a commitment from Sánchez to offer him a way out in exchange for his silence by ensuring his continuity as a deputy so that he could enjoy judicial capacity when the investigation progressed. And if this were the case, the President of the Government could be accused of "obstruction" of justice.
Now, when Koldo García and Ábalos himself "have fallen", according to Tellado's expression, the focus is on the other two members of the group baptized by the PP spokesperson as "the Peugeot gang", in reference to the car in the that Sánchez toured Spain in 2017 to campaign in the primaries for the general secretary of the PSOE: Santos Cerdán, current organizational secretary of the PSOE, and the president himself.
Be that as it may, where the PP believes that it can get to the bottom of the issue is in the Senate, and there it has registered an investigative commission from which it expects much more than the one promoted by the PSOE in Congress, which, according to Tellado has stated that he intends to make a "general cause" about the purchase of masks in the pandemic because the Government "needs to share the problem" and cast a "smokescreen" over the case with which it seeks to "spread doubts." over all administrations.
