Sánchez asks to clarify the “shadows of corruption” in the PP “as soon as possible” and rules out calling elections

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  • The president stresses that they must be checked “with forcefulness and transparency“All the accusations made by Ayuso and Casado

  • “Don’t let us be used as alibi for his affairs“, says the spokeswoman from Moncloa. The Executive denies that it had information on the alleged illegal commission

It is evident that the total and merciless war in the PP is viewed with joy by the Government, but out doors it sends two messages: one, that they do not interfere in the crossroads of reproaches (and versions) that are launched by Pablo Casado and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and two, who clarified “as soon as possible” any “shadow” of corruption. And there is another third notice: there will be no early general electionsdespite the fact that this is the most delicate moment for the popular ones.

The three reflections came out of the mouth of the President of the Government from Brussels this Friday, at the end of the EU-African Union summit and the informal meeting of leaders on the situation in Ukraine. The outbreak of the crisis in the PP, yesterday, Thursday, caught him outside of Spain, so today was the first day he spoke about it. Pedro Sánchez recalled that since he was in Moncloa and even before “never“He has interfered in the internal issues of other parties, and added that his Executive is focused”in what should be“, in management, in “solving the problems of citizens, in overcoming the pandemic and in consolidating economic recovery and transforming the productive fabric thanks to European funds”.

“The only thing I would ask,” he continued, “is that any shadow of doubt and accusation of corruption that has been made public this Friday be clarified as soon as possible and with total transparency and forcefulness.” He was referring to Casado’s very harsh words at COPE, in which he encrypted the commission allegedly charged by the brother of the Madrid president, Tomás Díaz Ayuso, at 286,000 euros“an amount sufficient relevant so that someone can think that there has been influence peddling”. The head of the regional executive recess the money received by your relative to 55,850 euros plus VAT and yesterday denounced having been the victim of a plan orchestrated by Genoa to destroy it. Casado denied any espionage operation.

Casado estimates the commission that Ayuso’s brother could charge at 286,000 euros, an amount that the president reduces to 55,850 euros plus VAT

Ayuso pointed out, in his first appearance without questions, that he knew that his brother appeared linked to the 1.5 million euro contract that the regional government awarded, in April 2020, to the company Priviet Sportivebecause Casado told him at the meeting that both held in September 2021. He pointed out to her, the president shielded herself, that the dossier had been leaked by Moncloa. The leader of the PP denied emphatically in the COPE that it had knowledge of those assumptions made by the Sánchez Executive. “The information does not come from a specific person, this type of information reaches the national headquarters, often by people from the Administration involved, and that is why in this case we need to collect the evidence internally.”

“Distract attention”

“I would ask that these insinuations that really have neither head nor tail,” Sánchez replied from the Belgian capital, “and that have a malicious meaning, are not used“, because “it is what it seems: to distract attention and not respond to these accusations of corruption”. Before, and from Madrid, the Cabinet spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, walked in the same line: that the PP clarify whether or not there was irregularities and whether or not it is “a case of corruption” and if so, that Casado bring it to the attention of the judges or the Prosecutor’s Office. do not use us and do not put us in the middle. I tell you absolutely, the government has nothing to do with it,” Rodríguez stressed at the press conference after the extraordinary Council of Ministers this Friday.

Sánchez admits that the debate in the PP “is not edifying” and maintains that the Executive will continue to focus on management and guaranteeing stability

In other words, that the PP does not use the Executive “as alibi of their troubles”. “If the Government had any kind of knowledge of a criminal act, it would have immediately informed the Prosecution and Justice“, he stressed, to emphasize that “it is curious that the argument of authority used by both parties is Moncloa,” reports EFE.

When the president was asked in Brussels what it means for Spain that the main opposition party plunges into a self-destructive spiral, he acknowledged that this “not an uplifting debate“, but added that what is “relevant” is “to be respectful of the internal crises” of the parties, and he will continue to be so. And he stuck to his message: the most important thing, “from the point of view of democratic regeneration” , is to “clarify the Doubts about the accusations of corruption that are being raised”.

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The president pointed out that the Executive has no plans Go to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to report the facts.since in addition the groups of the left in the Assembly of Madrid presented their writing this Friday, but beyond the judicialization, the key is to give a “political response“, which insistently asked the PP throughout his appearance, to “consolidate democracy and the good name of the institutions.”

Sanchez will not anticipate the generals to take advantage of the weakness of the PP. He ruled it out during his press conference: the Government “is working and guaranteeing a legislature that is important for many transformations” and reforms, such as the one approved this Friday by the Council of Ministers (the science law). “That is what the Government is in, in governing, in guaranteeing the stability that the country needs and in completing the legislature”, important to “overcome the pandemic, recover the economy and continue creating jobs.”



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