The scandal caused by the Mediator case has forced the PSOE to examine its deputies in Congress in search of whether there are more involved in the corruption plot of Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo and in the “immoral” practices linked to prostitution and drugs in which The one known as Tito Berni was involved.
Although these investigations have been limited to informal conversations and questions to the deputies by the group’s leadership, the socialist spokesman, Patxi López, has concluded that “there is no other deputy who has slipped down the slope of corruption” or there is evidence “of no other activity conniving with dishonest behavior.”
However, that assertion does not settle the crisis. Well, López assures at the same time that if evidence is found that someone else is involved, he will be immediately expelled from the PSOE and the parliamentary group. Therefore, it is not one hundred percent guaranteed that there will be no more cases because the investigation is still open in court.
For now, the PSOE exempts the other congressional deputies from guilt and downplays the fact that some “15” of them, according to the summary, could have attended a dinner organized by Fuentes Curbelo with businessmen involved in the corrupt plot in the Ramsés restaurant . Or that five other socialist parliamentarians also went to a second dinner of the same characteristics, as EL MUNDO has revealed today.
“It is one thing to go to a dinner and another to be corrupted,” stressed López, who has insisted that being in that context does not have to mean anything. For the PSOE “the limit is corruption”, not having gone.
“From what we know on our own initiative or from what we have called,” he indicated, there are no more deputies involved in either corrupt activities or “dishonest acts.” “As soon as we are aware” that there are, he has reiterated, “he will be removed from our discipline.”
López has avoided raising to the category of “investigation” the investigations that the socialist group in Congress has been carrying out and has limited the investigations carried out to calls and informal conversations with deputies who could have been in those meetings with Fuentes Curbelo. Yes, he has recognized that there have been parliamentarians who have directly contacted the PSOE to acknowledge their presence at those dinners but also to avoid any subsequent participation in the corrupt plot or at parties with prostitutes and drugs.
After this examination, López has already submitted to the open judicial investigation to obtain more information on whether possible implicates within the PSOE. Well, “other instances”, he has said to her, “have better data than us”. In this case, he has remarked that he will take action against any conduct contrary to the ethical principles of the PSOE.
For this reason, for the socialist spokesman in Congress, the “best thing” is for the courts to investigate and decide on the Mediator case instead of opening a commission of inquiry in Congress, as some parliamentary groups want, because the case is “sub judice” .
At a press conference in Congress, López highlighted the speed (“in less than 16 hours”) with which the PSOE acted as soon as it became aware of the actions of the so-called Tito Berni and contrasted it with the attitude of the PP in other cases of corruption. “There are two ways to act: stop it and expel the corrupt from their ranks or the compadreo.” And he has delved into the fact that the PP maintains Jorge Fernández Díaz as affiliates, that it maintains the mayoress of Marbella or that it maintains meetings with accused persons in Ibiza.
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