The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, in his appearance before the Constitutional Commission of Congress, has avoided giving explanations about the Mediator plot and its alleged ramifications in the Socialist Group and in the Ministries hiding behind the Kitchen case.
Bolaños has refused to respond to the deputy of the Mixed Group, a former member of UPN, Sergio Sayas, who has asked him about the Mediator case: “Are you sure that there are no ministries involved? Has the government opened an investigation? Will they support a committee of inquiry in Congress? The minister’s argument has been to accuse the deputy of being a “defaulter” and having “passed over to the PP with weapons and baggage” for which he did not deserve to be answered.
Yes, he has taken advantage of the head of the Presidency to refer to the latest events related to the Kitchen case. A “very serious” issue, he said, since it meant “using State means to hide PP crimes.” And he added: “We ask ourselves, what crimes did the PP not commit against the State?”
In line with this reflection, he has insisted that in the PSOE “unlike the PP, the corrupt are fired immediately”, alluding to the case of former Socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo. “The PP”, he has said, “lives with corruption as if nothing had happened”. “Ours”, he stressed, “was a sudden and immediate action, in a matter of hours.” And he has urged the popular to explain why they have not yet expelled those accused by Kitchen from the party, thus referring to the former Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz.
In its reply, the PP has brought up the case of the ERE and has urged Bolaños to explain the treatment they give to senior socialist officials, alluding to José Antonio Griñán and Manuel Chaves, both former presidents of the PSOE and the Junta de Andalusia, convicted in said case. The minister has assured that what his party will never do is “break with a hammer” the computers as happened with the former popular treasurer Luis Bárcenas.
Bolaños did stop at the request of the PDeCAT deputy, Genís Boadella, in addressing his recent meetings in Brussels with the vice-president of the Commission Vera Jourova and the Justice commissioner, Didier Reynders, and has assured that the European Commission is “absolutely horrified ” with the “so rude and illegal” blockade of the PP to the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Bolaños also added, as a conclusion to their meetings in Brussels, that “in Europe it is worrying that the Popular Party has such a little autonomous leader and is subject to pressure from the most ultra-right.”
The Minister of the Presidency has insisted that the unblocking in the renewal of the CGPJ could take place this afternoon if Feijóo wanted to because the agreement between the Government and the PP was practically done and was put on hold when the popular leader decided not to sign it.
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