Years before he was appointed government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín held a position in which he had to appear twice in parliamentary committees, that of president of the Pancal de Rosas Association, the portal created in collaboration with … The goal of funding Pedro Sánchez’s primary campaign in 2017, when he regained the Socialist Party secretariat.
Martin was summoned to appear before the Senate investigation committee of the Koldo case, and as the treasurer of this suspected crowdfunding had already done, he separated the activity of the Bancal de Rosas portal from the PSOE party. A website registered in Sanchez’s name through which donations for the initial operation are received and managed.
An “instrument”, as Martin described it, was created to manage those funds “as transparently as possible”, but it raised serious doubts in this particular aspect, as it was done outside the Socialist Workers Party and the Court of Accounts despite funding the Socialist Party’s internal election process.
The government delegate in Madrid confirmed on several occasions that the organization did not receive funds from legal entities, but only from individuals, but refused to provide data on taxpayers and the founders of Bancal de Rosas. When asked if they had received money from the business of Sanchez’s father-in-law, Sabignano Gomez, to support the nomination, Martin replied that he “could not provide that information.”
What he confirmed was that he met with the former Secretary General of the Socialist Workers Party, Santos Cerdán, who was then in charge of managing Sánchez’s candidacy, to discuss issues related to the campaign.