The Government rejects Vox's "lessons" with the Mediator case and defends the "honest and honest" work of the PSOE

MADRID, 8 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has defended this Wednesday the "honest, honest and exemplary" work of the Socialist Group in Congress and has rejected that Vox give her "lessons" for the news that has emerged around the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo and the corruption plot of the 'Mediator case'.

In the control session in Congress, the Vox deputy José María Figaredo has assumed that up to fifteen socialist deputies would be involved in the 'Mediator' plot and that, far from resigning, they hide in their bench despite "spending public money in cocaine and prostitutes" while the Executive remains "idle arms".

And Montero, after reproaching him for speaking of the former deputy as 'Tito Berni' when he himself is the nephew of the convicted former vice president Rodrigo Rato, has blurted out that the group of those from Santiago Abascal would like to compare themselves with the socialist, "who works every day to improve the well-being of all citizens".

The minister has indicated that this "hunt" that is intended from the political and media right against her parliamentary group will not prosper and has recalled that when there is a case of irregularities they always respond by expelling the party and forcing the person to leave The act of deputy, something that Vox has assured, does not happen because Iván Espinosa de los Monteros is still a deputy despite being "condemned by the Supreme Court for not paying his house."

Later, Espinosa asked for the floor due to allusions to clarify that he was not sentenced or tried by the Supreme Court, but that the High Court rejected an appeal that he had filed against someone who had "swindled" him.

The minister has also cited the case of another Vox deputy, Víctor González Coello of Portugal, who has explained that he has been sentenced to three-year disqualification "for accounting irregularities", or the Minister of Culture of Castilla y León, Gonzalo Santonja , whom he has accused of "charging from a foundation". "No lessons for this group, it is exemplary", she snapped.

In his turn to reply, the Vox deputy regretted that Montero's ministry acts "harshly" against the self-employed "if they miss a day in the liquidations" but remains idly by when "fifteen deputies spend public money on cocaine and prostitutes". And he has added that it is no longer just the 'Mediator' case but others such as the ERE of Andalusia or the contracts of the Valencian Generaltat with family or friends are added.

In addition, he explained that this corruption "does not stop at an economic issue but reaches moral corruption" because "they have a habit of releasing rapists and lowering penalties for those who steal public money." "A disaster, resign and call elections now," she added.