Feijóo is preparing for a "long offensive" against Sánchez for the 'Koldo case' in the middle of the Basque and European pre-campaign

The PP involves its CCAA in this siege on Sánchez, which occurs after his 'horribilis' week for the Galicians

MADRID, 25 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has activated its machinery to launch itself against the Government of Pedro Sánchez in a "long offensive" parliamentary and institutional due to the so-called 'Koldo case' on alleged corruption in the purchase of masks in the middle of the pandemic. According to the 'popular', this plot "directly affects" the head of the Executive because Koldo García, former advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos, was a "key" man within the PSOE and of the "maximum confidence" of the head of the Executive himself, whom He helped in the primaries.

After the resounding victory of the PP in the Galician elections on February 18, the ranks of the PP do not hide their satisfaction at the unexpected electoral advantage provided by this "plot of bites" that comes to light in the middle of the election pre-campaign. Basque elections on April 21 and European elections in June.

In fact, in 'Génova' they hope that the PNV will now show the same forcefulness against this case that it exhibited in the 2018 motion of censure against the Government of Mariano Rajoy, in which it showed off being "intolerant of corruption." after knowing the sentence of the 'Gürtel case', according to what party sources have indicated to Europa Press.

Feijóo's team considers that the "Ábalos case" - as it has been baptized in the PP - can become the "Sanchez case" - because it is a "corruption scandal" that fully affects the Executive and It has many ramifications.

Thus, they emphasize that, although the Ministry of Public Works was "ground zero" of the plot, it extends to other ministries such as the Interior or Health and to the socialist governments in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands chaired by Francina Armengol and Ángel Victor Torres, respectively.

The PP, which has asked to appear as a popular action and access the proceedings of the case, does not rule out any parliamentary initiative at this time - such as an investigative commission in Las Cortes - but is in no hurry because, as they allege, it is a "simmering" in which the "different ingredients" are being "thrown into the pot."

"We are at the tip of the iceberg," the general secretary of the 'popular' party summarized this Friday, showing herself convinced that they will learn new revelations about this case. And the PP already anticipate that there will not be "the slightest condescension" and that they will apply in this case a criterion just as strict as the one that the PSOE had with it in the 2018 motion of censure in defense of "democratic hygiene and exemplarity." about politic".

Furthermore, they believe that the caution with which Sánchez is behaving, given that he has not even "dared" to ask Ábalos to leave the record, is due to the fact that "he is afraid of what he might say because he was" guardian of the secrets of Sanchismo" and was in the team that led him to win the primaries in 2014 and win the General Secretary of the PSOE.

The 'popular' are preparing for a "cascade offensive", in which they will also mobilize their territorial power to "penalize" the Sánchez Government, especially in those communities in which contracts with the alleged plot are already known: Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

The Madrid Government has joined this deployment, especially when it was the PP of Madrid led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso that activated this investigation into the 'Koldo case' with a complaint about three suspicious contracts from the Covid stage, coinciding with the investigation into his brother for the purchase of masks for Madrid, which was archived by Justice.

For now, next week there will be another Government control session in the Plenary Session of Congress and the 'popular' will take the opportunity to directly ask for explanations from Sánchez and the ministers sitting on the blue bench in Congress.

"How many scandals can your Government endure," Feijóo will ask Sánchez in his new parliamentary duel, while his spokesman in Congress, Miguel Tellado, will call on Minister Félix Bolaños to clarify what information the Government had about this corruption plot in full swing. Covid pandemic.

In the ranks of the PP they are also preparing the story of the coming weeks against Sánchez, after these years he has shown off leading an "exemplary" and "impeccable" Government that does not tolerate any type of corruption.

For now, from 'Génova' they have already recalled that it was José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transport, who in 2018 took to the rostrum of the Plenary Session of Congress to defend Pedro Sánchez's motion of censure against the Government of Mariano Rajoy, hiding behind the sentence of the 'Gürtel case' and giving lessons in "political exemplarity."

These days the PP has spread on social networks a video with Sánchez's statements highlighting his fight against corruption, which even dates back to 2015, when he was already serving as general secretary of the PSOE: "Friends, I am a "a clean politician who leads a clean party and who aspires to govern a clean Government". According to the PP, Sánchez's Executive should not presume to be "clean, exemplary and blameless" in light of the information that is becoming known about this "biting plot."

In 'Génova' they consider that the plot of the masks puts the finishing touch to a 'horribilis' week for Pedro Sánchez, which began with the electoral failure of the Galician socialists in the regional elections against the absolute majority of Alfonso Rueda.

Furthermore, the 'popular' remember that the Amnesty Law is still up in the air; Supreme Court prosecutors see Carles Puigdemont as the "absolute leader" of 'Tsunami', a group they accuse of "terrorism" crimes; and this same week there was the disapproval in the Senate of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, after the death of two civil guards run over by a drug boat.

"All this has completely overwhelmed the Executive," they say in the PP, who see the "final tip" in the 'Koldo case'. Furthermore, they remember that it occurs when only the first 100 days of Pedro Sánchez's Government have passed in this legislature.

PP sources insist that the party will seek a more active role than the one it had in the so-called 'Mediator case' (known by the PP as the 'Tito Berni case' and they will not be mere "spectators" in this "plot of bites"). "in the middle of the pandemic.

Of course, they are aware that there will be a trickle of new information and revelations and that is why they will "measure" their actions, the same sources have added, especially when Feijóo has asked his people to mark the Government but with caution because This is "going for a long time," the sources consulted have stressed.