Alberto García Reyes: Montero to the ball

When Juan Bonilla located his novel “No one knows anyone” in Seville, which Mateo Gil later adapted for the cinema, he only foreshadowed the role-playing game in which, years later, the Andalusian PSOE would play. We all hoped that after the flight … of the ERE, seasoned with the brothels and shops of the Faffe, the troubles of Invercaria and the fallout from internships in the unions, socialism will face a process of regeneration in Andalusia which will allow it to stand for elections without the shadow of corruption at its heels. But it seems that the miseries reached the core of the party and that the Sanchist core that germinated in Dos Hermanas, with the protection of Francisco Toscano, continued on the same path. The cases of the advisor to the government delegate, Rafael Pineda, and of Paco Salazar close the hard core of one of the two great champions of anti-Susanism, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, who was hiding in the vice-presidency of the Congress while awaiting his nomination as candidate for mayor of Seville, an option currently being discussed. And the squandering of Vicente Fernández’s assets destroys María Jesús Montero as a candidate for the Council of Andalusia, if she has not already been destroyed by default. Now no one knows anyone. All party servants follow the teaching of the prophet in the parable of Ábalos. “Personally, he was a stranger to me.” But she appointed president of the State Industrial Holding Company, not the Holy Spirit. It was Montero who gave this trusted auditor full authority to manage one of the state agencies with the largest budget and contracting capacity. And it was she who kept his job when he was accused of the Aznalcóllar affair, of which he has just been acquitted, at a time when he was hired by chance by Servinabar, Cerdán’s company, which incidentally took a liking to the Seville Fair and became a partner of the stand assigned to itself by the socialist Alfonso Mir. We do not know if the costs were paid by his brother-in-law with money from the Centenaire Bridge commissions.

María Jesús Montero is linked to Vicente Fernández and has no escape. This man bought properties in Madrid, Marbella and Seville worth four million euros upon his arrival at SEPI and opened a bar in La Cartuja which the UCO is investigating as a possible money launderer. The joint is located right under the Expo ’92 symbol, which gives it its name: Bar la Bola. In the role-playing game of Andalusian corruption, everything ends up fitting together through our most popular expressions. The vice-president and candidate can apologize as she wishes – she has already put her hand in the fire for Cerdán even if she did not know him at all – but the facts are stubborn: the Fernández case touches her to the deepest. Worthy of a universal exhibition.

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