Pedro Sánchez calls Aldama a “character” and assures that all the pieces he says is “categorically false”: “What a fabrication” | Spain | EUROtoday

The PSOE will perform authorized actions in opposition to Víctor de Aldama, alleged achiever of the Koldo case, that one week earlier than the forty first Federal Congress of Seville launched a barrage of very critical accusations in opposition to the Government during which he included Pedro Sánchez. The assertion within the National Court of one of many alleged ringleaders of the plot of the Koldo case It was like a judicial cluster bomb after Aldama claimed to have given a whole bunch of hundreds of euros to José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García and extra bribes to different socialist officers. The end result got here when he assured that the president requested to fulfill him. The PSOE mobilized its heavyweights to disclaim the slightest credibility and restrict the injury to the picture of the Government after having accomplished the primary 12 months of investiture of a stormy legislature. And Aldama, who was launched from jail tonight, has assured that Sánchez may have “proof of everything.”

The seriousness of Aldama’s accusations made Sánchez himself resolve to seem in Congress, after the approval of the tax reform, with the aim of nipping Aldama’s statements within the bud, denying him the slightest credibility. “About this character… My Government is a clean Government, which arose from a motion of censure to end the systemic corruption of those who are on Génova Street, in a headquarters paid in black. It will have to be Mr. Aldama who proves these insinuations and accusations (…) Everything this man has said is categorically false,” the president acknowledged. Aldama, who till now was in preventive detention for an additional felony plot, has declared that he handed over 250,000 euros to José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transport; 100,000 euros to his advisor Koldo García for the acquisition and sale of masks through the worst of the pandemic, and that Santos Cerdán, present Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, acquired 15,000 euros. And he added that Pedro Sánchez himself, President of the Government, requested to fulfill him.

“Since 2018, my approach has always been that any hint of corruption in the Government was going to be rooted out. And that’s what we’ve done. The statements of an alleged criminal who is in preventive detention deserve the credit he has: none,” reiterated the president, who was applauded by fifty socialist deputies who have been ready for him within the Congress courtyard. Questioned about Aldama’s statements during which he claims that Sánchez requested to fulfill him and invited him to a PSOE occasion to thank him for his providers, Sánchez has denied that this was the case. “What an invention. Little lower than I used to be ready for this man to reach on the rally so I may maintain the rally. I insist, it’s proof that this character’s protection technique is lies,” he stated categorically. Sánchez has emphasized that Aldama “if he has demonstrated something, it’s that his protection technique is lies to divert consideration, sow doubts and canopy up what apparently appear to be sure felony actions on the a part of this particular person.”

The PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has once again called for the resignation of the President of the Government after Aldama’s revelations and has accused him of having incurred “political, financial and ethical corruption.” Feijóo has given full credibility to the businessman’s statements. “We said that corruption affected the president, there is no doubt that we were right. It has been confirmed in the Court that the Government reeks of corruption, and the judges already know it, and they will continue to act accordingly,” he assured. The leader of the PP has opened himself to a motion of censure. “I don’t have the votes to change the government, but if any of the partners want to put an end to all this, they should know that I am available to open a new stage in our country,” Feijóo stated. The leader of the PP has repeated the phrase on several occasions, appealing directly to the partners, although he had previously joked that said partners may think that supporting Sánchez compensates them as “the weakest president.” Sánchez, after expressing the “maximum respect” for the figure of motions of censure, which “falls within the constitutional order”, has joked about the possibility of success that it would have: “It would be a good opportunity for Feijóo to propose an alternative government which is not known today.” “It’s very funny to me because when I raised the motion of censure and it passed [en 2018 a Mariano Rajoy]the PP said that it was an unconstitutional instrument,” he added.

The PSOE has come out in power all through the day with the president and different heavies of the get together and the Government who’ve struck repeatedly, casting doubt on Aldama’s credibility. Cerdán himself assured within the morning, as quickly as he heard the assertion of the supposed achiever of the Koldo case, that he didn’t know him and that Aldama had not given him an envelope with cash. “He has no credibility, he is in preventive detention and what we have seen is that he has attacked everyone, without any evidence and with lies. [Lo que dice] It is absolutely false, this man has no relationship with the President of the Government, and he has never been with me personally. I don’t even know him, he will never be able to say that he was with me, therefore the evidence that he says or what he says is flatly false,” stated the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE in Congress. This same night, Aldama was released by Judge Santiago Pedraz and upon his release from prison he sent a message: “Don’t worry about Mr. Sánchez, he will have proof of everything,” he stressed to the media.

“The presumption of innocence is fundamental, all these lies will have to be proven and obviously we are going to initiate police actions from the PSOE. He also says that he gave me [el sobre] in the presence of Koldo. That man has never been with me, I insist, never. He won’t be able to say he’s ever been with me. Let them geolocate my cell phone to see if I have ever met that man. I’ve never been with him. He doesn’t know me personally. Therefore, there is more proof than that,” insisted the number three of the PSOE. In the afternoon, in a speech in the plenary session of Congress on the modification of the Organic Law of the Foral Regime of Navarra regarding traffic and road safety, Cerdán regretted that “confessed criminals can lie freely under the protection of the law and mark the political agenda.” “Besmirching the great identify of individuals you do not even know cannot come without cost. That there are politicians who use the statements of those topics to make politics can’t come without cost. We aren’t going to let ourselves be trampled. They aren’t going to defeat us with lies, slander and false testimonies. Abandon all hope,” he concluded while PP deputies sang “15,000 euros” parodying the children of San Ildefonso who sing the Christmas Lottery.

María Jesús Montero has been another of the pillars with which the Government and the PSOE have tried to immediately stop the barrage coming from the National Court. “[Aldama] It has no credibility and is in a judicial strategy that will end up being shown, like everything else, to be flatly false. There has never, ever been any type of payment, or commission, or anything that this man is saying, or meetings,” the first vice president remarked. “We don’t even know this man personally and, therefore, everything this person is saying is false. The people mentioned are going to initiate legal action because their image and honor are being damaged. It is shameful what we have heard today from a person who is using this as a mere judicial strategy. Never, ever, has there been anything that this man has said and never, ever, has there been any contact or meeting of anyone with this man,” concluded the number two of the Executive and the PSOE.

“There is a person who is in preventive detention, who lies blatantly to defend himself, to try to divert the attention that is on him today and to try to mess everything up,” Patxi López observed. “Everything he has said is a lie. The President of the Government has had no relationship with him, and what we hope is that justice puts everything in its place. That is why the PSOE has announced that it is going to initiate legal action, among other things, because we have always said that there are two ways to combat corruption. One is that of the PSOE, which is fighting it, which is making all our information available to justice. And another is to cover it, as the PP usually does,” added the socialist spokesperson in Congress. More than concern, López has recognized the “indignation” of his party: “It is enough that in this country lies triumph more than the truth. And that is why we hope that justice will clarify this whole issue.”

Like the PSOE, Ábalos has denied Aldama’s “defamatory accusations” in his statement at the National Court and will study with his lawyers the exercise of legal action “given the seriousness and falsehood of his accusations.” “I will fully respond to each of them in court when I am questioned, something that I voluntarily requested without success weeks ago before the case was raised to the Supreme Court,” added the previous Secretary of Organization and former Minister of Public Works in a message on the social community Koldo case.