Pablo Casado He has been traveling throughout Spain for the entire week of a convention. Between balloons and applause, surfing the wave of polls that placed him in Moncloa. Worshiped by international leaders and former presidents Jose Maria Aznar and Mariano Rajoy.
Precisely, having collected the remains of the latter’s fall due to corruption – and his efforts to cover it up – may embitter the current leader of the PP on the triumphal weekend. On the eve of his apotheosis in Valencia, The PSOE works so that the news is that it has to declare for the ‘Kitchen operation’, as confirmed by socialist sources.
At 2:00 p.m. this Friday, the deadline for the parliamentary groups to present their lists proposing declarants before the commission of investigation of the plot for the alleged illegal use of personnel, means and resources of the Ministry of the Interior on the part of the leaders of the PP of Rajoy, in which Casado was deputy secretary of Communication.
The works seek to clarify the political responsibilities of those who favored the political interests of the Popular Party and annul incriminating evidence for this party in cases of corruption. They were interrupted last June -after the imputation of Maria Dolores de Cospedal, former secretary general, in the judicial case – after opening last March.
That day was a real big event in Congress: the list was opened, from prison, by the ex-treasurer of the PP, Luis Barcenas, sentenced to 12 years in prison for the Gurtel plot. The most desired by both the PSOE and all its parliamentary partners, as a “symbol of the corruption of the PP.” And it was closed by Rajoy himself, which now has a date for December.
Discreet contacts
When asked by EL ESPAÑOL, in the Popular Party they say they have no fear of a possible summons. “It would be a desperate maneuver,” says a member of the national leadership. “Single It would show that they fear Married and that the convention is being a success that worries them “.
Parliamentary sources reveal to this newspaper that this Thursday there were discreet contacts between the popular and socialist groups. Through the intercession of the Chamber, they would try to convince the PSOE that do not call the opposition leader to a commission of inquiry if there are no clear reasons.
Bárcenas, in his appearance in the parliamentary investigation commission on Kitchen.
The resumption of work after the summer break begins with a new round of appearing, in which the Socialists consider including Casado. In fact, It is the intention of the PSOE to force the current popular president to declare. Although for this, they are looking “legal evidence” justifying the decision.
The technical teams of the Parliamentary Group review these days all the documentation they have, both the judicial one and the one in their power due to the previous parliamentary work.
Signs that Podemos sees
Who has it very clear is the partner of the Socialists in the coalition government. United We can negotiate a joint list with the PSOE until the last minute, “so that they accept that Pablo Casado is on it.” And the sources consulted argue that being Married the “immediate” successor of Mariano Rajoy, “will be able to offer to the deputies explanations on the management that carried out when arriving at the presidency”.
In other words, the Parliamentary Group for the formation of Yolanda Diaz consider: first, that either he cleaned the match, “and then knew or knew of corruption when cleaning it“, or” he did not investigate or purge “what happened in his party. In that case,” he must give explanations for his inaction. “
Second – and in this the parliamentary ally of Esquerra Republicana also agrees -, for the morados it should be remembered that Casado was promoted to the presidency of PP “with the votes of the Cospedal delegates”. The once almighty number two de Rajoy is now being investigated by the judge Manuel García-Castellón, accused along with her husband of bribery and embezzlement offenses.
The third “indication” used by the United We Can sources is that “Casado incorporated Jorge Fernández Díaz into his first executive”. The former Minister of the Interior is the main political person in charge of the case and the highest-ranking figure charged in the National High Court for the plot Kitchen.
Jorge Fernández Díaz (right) and his former Secretary of State, Francisco Martínez.
It was under the orders of Fernández Díaz that all the facts under investigation were allegedly carried out. “And if Casado wanted him by his side, either he protected him and pushed him aside for trying to flee from corruption, or he protected him and stopped doing it when he knew something.” That is precisely what United We Can “wants me to explain. Married before the commission of inquiry“.
The commission has already extended its work for six more months, when Cospedal’s imputation was known on June 2. The idea now is to try to finish it before Christmas. But the purple formation claims that it leaves the door open for, “if relevant information continues to be discovered”, more appearing parties are called “to continue investigating.”
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