The Popular Party has accused the Socialist Group in Congress of being “the main headquarters” of the corrupt Mediator plot and has demanded explanations from the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the PSOE spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, while He has claimed to know which Socialist deputies participated in the dinners organized by the plot and what public facilities and means they used to carry out their corrupt businesses.
“Sánchez and López must make public the information they have and the sanctions they plan to impose. The Socialist Group in Congress was the main headquarters of this plot. All the Socialist deputies are now under suspicion,” said the popular deputy Belén Hoyo .
“It’s enough with smokescreens and silences. We don’t want discretion, we want explanations,” added Hoyo for whom it is clear that it is not only a corrupt plot but also a “sexist” one because “he used women as payment in bribes “With what face are the socialist deputies going to go to the 8-M demonstration now?”, he asked.
The popular, who have already requested the appearances in the Chamber of the Vice President and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will expand their request today to include the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.
“All this is shameful and unfortunate,” Hoyo assured, urging the Socialists to “ask for forgiveness today for having stained the honor of Congress” and to “identify” all the deputies who participated in dinners and parties organized by the ” criminal plot in the midst of a pandemic”.
The PP wants to know which facilities of the Socialist Group in Congress and in the Government of the Canary Islands have been used “as an operations center” for the corrupt network. The popular ones are also convinced that the tentacles of the plot extend through various ministries and even through other socialist autonomous governments and they specifically cite that of Aragon, chaired by Javier Lambán, and that of Valencia, headed by Ximo Puig.
Ciudadanos also demanded yesterday the creation of a commission of investigation into the plot headed by the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes and, in addition, urged the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, to open disciplinary proceedings against the deputies allegedly involved in it and that, according to statements by the alleged mediator Antonio Navarro, he himself organized a dinner at a well-known Madrid restaurant for Curbelo and fifteen PSOE deputies. CS has also requested a commission of inquiry in the Canarian Parliament.
Unidas Podemos agrees that the Mediator case is “very serious” and “shameful”, with “illegal and immoral elements”, and reveals that there are still many “transformations” to be made in the country. “We don’t know to what extent the sewers have been cleaned. We hope to have more strength in the next elections to guarantee the cleanliness. If something keeps the progressive electorate away from politics, it is this type of case.”
This has been stated by the spokesman for the purple formation Pablo Echenique who has insisted that his party “was born so that corruption would not be normalized within the bipartisanship.” Unidas Podemos “condemns” the facts that are already known and bets on “waiting” to see if the ones being published by the media are confirmed. For now, the purple formation dilutes the case in the broader framework of bipartisanship and avoids focusing directly on its majority partner in the Government, the PSOE. Furthermore, Podemos rules out requesting appearances or adopting initiatives in relation to this matter at the hands of the PP, “the most corrupt party of democracy.”
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