The former Socialist Minister of Public Works and former Andalusian Minister of Economy and Finance Magdalena Álvarez has shown herself this Friday “sure” that the TC will behave with the amparo appeals presented by the former presidents of the Board Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán for their convictions in the case of fraudulent employment regulation files (ERE) in the same way as his own, which has been partially estimated, while pointing out that it is “false” that more than 680 million euros have been misappropriated in said fraud. . These are statements that the former counselor has made in the program ‘Espejo Público’ on Antena 3 Television, collected by Europa Press, after the Plenary of the TC partially upheld her appeal for protection after being sentenced to nine years of disqualification for a crime. continued prevarication for having participated in the preparation and approval of the preliminary drafts and projects of the Budget laws of Andalusia for the years 2002, 2003 and 2004, and for carrying out various budget modifications. Now, the Constitutional Court has ordered the Court of Seville to issue a new ruling that excludes the facts related to the approval of the preliminary drafts and budget bills and budget modifications covered by said law in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004. The former counselor has reiterated that she is “very well” and “happy” after said TC ruling because “it has been demonstrated” that she was not “working on a plot to defraud the Spaniards or the Andalusians”, so she is ” completely calm because there is absolutely nothing irregular, illegal or anything” in his behavior as head of the Treasury in the Andalusian Government. To the question of whether she believes that the sentence reduction that the TC’s decision will entail “clears the way for other convicts” in the case of the ERE such as former presidents Chaves and Griñán to also see “their sentences shortened”, Magdalena Álvarez responded that she is “absolutely sure” that this will be the case, and it will also happen with “many other colleagues who are in the same situation”, so that they will have “the same response” that she has had from the TC, which, as stated , has come to tell both the Seville Court and the Supreme Court that she was convicted “unfairly.” Likewise, he has denied that in the case of the ERE more than 680 million euros were misappropriated, and has pointed out that this was “a figure budgeted by the Parliament of Andalusia for socio-labor aid, what is known as the ERE, but At no time has it been proven or said, nor has it been investigated how much the embezzled money is. “The greatest proof that it is not true” that this money has been misappropriated – the former councilor continued – is that the Andalusian Government of the PP-A “continues to pay this aid”, as Magdalena Álvarez has drawn attention, who He has asked how it is that the Board governed by Juanma Moreno would have been paying this aid for more than five years if it were “fraudulent”, because in that case “it would be embezzling.” The former counselor has also stressed that “it has become clear” that those convicted in the so-called ‘political piece’ of the ERE were not “beneficiaries” of the supposedly embezzled money, and “it is proven” that “we have never received any money from any guy”. THE ANTI-CORRUPTION PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE “WILL BE ABLE TO SAY MASS” Magdalena Álvarez has asserted that this figure of 680 million would come from “the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which is the accusation” in this case and, “therefore, it will be able to say mass”, but “here the It is the judges who decide, and until the judges say how much it is, then frankly you cannot say” how much money was embezzled. Furthermore, she added that “the Prosecutor’s Office also said that the Budget laws were prevaricating, and the Constitutional Court has told them no.” “The prosecutors say what they think they should say at the time, but that is not a dogma of faith,” and that figure of 680 million “is false,” added Magdalena Álvarez, who has also revealed that she talks “a lot.” with the former president of the Board Manuel Chaves, also after learning of this decision of the TC, and has pointed out that with him “a great injustice has been committed”, and “someday someone will have to repair the damage that has been done to him and all of us,” he added. Likewise, she explained that she has also spoken with former president José Antonio Griñán, and “everyone is hopeful that their appeals for protection will be recognized just as mine has been recognized, and I hope so,” commented the former counselor. “CASUAL” ATTENDANCE AT THE SÁNCHEZ MEETING IN BENALMÁDENA On the other hand, about his presence at a meeting of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in Benalmádena (Málaga) in the recent electoral campaign for the European elections on June 9 in which the Also leader of the PSOE alluded to her defending her honesty, Magdalena Álvarez – who has stated that she has been “a victim of a political hunt for a long time, almost since I arrived at the Junta de Andalucía as a councilor” – has explained that she He “coincidentally” went to that rally that he “wasn’t planning on going to.” “I live in Benalmádena, I was eating with a friend” that day and she “told me” to come to the rally, and she was wearing “a blue suit” that “caused a lot of attention,” said the former counselor, who explained Furthermore, she was “in the front row” at that event and Pedro Sánchez saw her when she was speaking and “quoted” her, and she stood up “to say hello because all her classmates applauded.” “There is absolutely nothing more,” he stated to rule out that the President of the Government alluded to it because he knew what the TC was going to resolve a few days later. “Pedro Sánchez couldn’t know that I was going to the rally because I didn’t even know,” and I guess it isn’t,” the former minister added. Similarly, Magdalena Álvarez has accused the PP of giving “a kick to the rule of law.” pointing to a possible “disguised pardon” to qualify the decision of the TC regarding his appeal for protection, and has asked the ‘popular’ “how they dare to take him not only to the contrary” to the court of guarantees, which is “the that has to affirm whether or not the rights” of a person have been respected, as he stated before concluding by urging the representatives of the PP to “stop manipulating, undermining the Spanish rule of law and deteriorating it.”
