Despite being surrounded by the investigation of his wife Begoña Gómez and located in the eye of the hurricane by the Koldo case, Pedro Sanchez He threw balls out this Saturday, October 12, Columbus daywith a message with which he seems to want to convey that none of these controversies affect him: “Spain is the best country in the world,” the President of the Government conveyed on the day of the National Holiday.
He Koldo case has fully entered Sánchez’s Executive after the president himself has been affected by the latest report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard. It indicates that the plot referred to Sánchez as The 1an alias that is mentioned in several audios. They also appear splashed Francina Armengolthe third authority of the State as president of the Congress of Deputies, and ministers and former ministers such as Ángel Víctor Torres, Teresa Ribera, Salvador Illa, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Nadia Calviño, Reyes Maroto y José Luis Ábalos.
The names of all of them appear related to the plot that addresses the sale of medical suppliesalso defective, worth 53 million euros taking advantage of the blow of the pandemic. The plot interfered to rescue Air Europain addition to encouraging the visit of Delcy Rodriguezvice president of Venezuela. Sánchez acknowledged this Friday that he was aware of the visit to Spain of the right hand of Nicolas Madurodespite the European Union’s prohibition against him entering Spanish territory. It has taken the Chief Executive four years to recognize it.
Pedro Sánchez explained that his Government was aware of Delcy Rodríguez’s visit even before it took place, four days before, when he received a message from José Luis Ábalos. He argued that it was then that the Executive “realized” the sanctions imposed from the EUalthough these were public for at least a year and a half before. At that time, Sánchez was already president of the Government.
In addition, it has also been known that in September 2018, the ringleader of the Koldo plot Victor Aldama -alias The Gominas– he was already bragging about how much he was going to do with the change of government. Pedro Sánchez had been head of the Executive for less than 100 days, after the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.
The UCO report includes all the ramifications of the case that involves the president, seven ministers and a president of Congress six years after the first meeting between Aldama and the former Minister of Transport and former organizational secretary of the PSOE José Luis Ábalos. One of the main objectives of the plot mastermind was the rescue of Air Europa.
The news of the Koldo case adds tension to the Government of Pedro Sánchez, already in question by the Begoña Gómez case. The president’s wife faces the investigation opened in the Court of Instruction 41 of Madrid for the crime of influence peddling and of corruption in businessand the Complutense University of Madrid has canceled its degrees due to damage to the reputation of the educational institution.
And, in the midst of all this pressure, the President of the Government has shown himself this National Holiday Day as if none of it was with him. In fact, the first words he spoke were made public through Twitter, where he shared a video with a message: «SPAIN is culture, leadership, commitment, innovation, inclusion and education. SPAIN is solidarity, cooperation, equality, pride, identity and diversity. SPAIN is the best country in the world. In the images that accompany the text you can see a nod to retired, women protesters from 8M or to LGTBI+ community.
Furthermore, it has arrived with the time stuck to the military parade of October 12 -among boos-, shortly before the King Felipe VIthe Queen Letizia and the Princess Eleanor. The Infanta Sofia He has been absent because he is outside of Spain.