The spokesperson for the Junta de Andalucía, Caroline Spain (PP-A)asked Thursday for “explanations” from the First Vice President of the Government, Minister of Finance and Secretary General of the PSOE-A, María Jesús Montero, regarding the arrest of the former president of the State Corporation of … Industrial Participations (SEPI) Vicente Fernández.
He also criticized the “a thunderous silence” which, according to him, are supported by the leader of the PSOE-A and by the Andalusian Socialist Federation itself on this issue.
Spain pointed out that after becoming Minister of Finance, Montero “appointed” Vicente Fernández as president of SEPI, therefore “there are already many issues that directly affect the Socialist Party of Andalusia and Mrs. María Jesús Montero”, and “many explanations are missing”considered Carolina España.
In a speech to the press, before chairing the Board of Directors of the Commerce Agency in Seville, the spokesperson for the Andalusian Government spoke on this subject to questions from journalists, the day after the arrest by the Civil Guard of the former PSOE activist Leire Díez and the former president of the SEPI for allegations of irregularities in public procurement.
“Neither Spain nor Andalusia deserve wake up every day to a new scandal“, The spokesperson for the Junta began by commenting, emphasizing that currently, in Spain, “we are going to scandalize for hours”, as well as that the former president of the SEPI detained “had been comptroller general of the Junta of Andalusia” at the time when María Jesús Montero was Minister of the Treasury.
The Andalusian Minister of Finance thus drew attention to the “absolute silence of the Socialist Party of Andalusia” on this issue and underlined that “the Andalusian socialists” and María Jesús Montero herself “they must give explanations” on “what is happening around” the PSOE-A, “what link there was with the former president of SEPI”, whom “everyone assumes was Montero’s right-hand man in Andalusia” when the current first vice-president of the government “was an advisor” to the Council, “and in Madrid when she was appointed minister”, he added.
“There is a thunderous silence” from Montero and the PSOE-A, and “we hope that they will give the appropriate explanations as soon as possible to clarify everything that is happening,” added the spokesperson for the Junta, who concluded by insisting on the idea that “neither Spain nor Andalusia deserves to wake up every day with a new scandal, whether it is harassment, whether it is corruption, whether it is a new arrest, because that we are heading towards scandal at the moment,” concluded the advisor.
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