Jose Luis Abalosformerly known as “Jose” and now as “that guy you’re telling me about,” has a message for him Pedro Sanchez. He asserts that attacking him is “very reckless,” because “everything becomes very complicated.” This is something that the former minister had already anticipated in statements to the newspaper “El Mundo” before entering prison, and it gains great importance after the president said yesterday that he did not accept “blackmail” and that the former minister “was very strange” to him “from a personal point of view.”
This last phrase is certainly shocking, because it does not compare with the WhatsApp messages I sent to him, nor with his testimony Victor Abalos About how it is and Begonia gomez They stayed to sleep in his apartment in Valencia, nor with the story of the rest of the hard core that brought the socialist leader to La Moncloa. Everyone at PSOE knows that their relationship was undeniably deep, which moved from the professional sphere to the humanitarian sphere. The former minister himself confirmed to this newspaper that his relationship with the leader of the Socialist Workers’ Party was very “close” and “daily” and enjoyed strong personal ties. “There was tremendous overlap between me and the president. He pointed out that the ridiculous thing is to relativize this.
For example, just remember the WhatsApp that was exposed by this newspaper. On July 30, 2023, Sanchez wrote to Abalos at 9:29 p.m. Admitting that he was nostalgic for his years of cooperation in the government. “The truth is, I’ve missed working with you a few times,” he admitted. “I have always appreciated your political standards. And so is your friendship. in the end. “Sending you a hug.”
Letters exchanged between Sanchez and Abalos.M
“And also your friendship.” It was not a personal relationship that prompted Abalos to turn to Sanchez in the primary. “The person who was there without ever being a friend was me. “Then I was in all positions,” he told this newspaper. He explains it this way Jose Felix TezanosPresident of the CIS and a member of Sanchez’s Imperial Guard in the primaries, in his book Pedro Sanchez. He’s Left: From the Primaries to La Moncloa: «Jose Luis Albalos, even though he was not in his first teams or not explicitly, would end up becoming one of their key players. The fact is that Pedro had contacted Abalos when he joined Parliament, without having had a particularly strong relationship before that.
However, the two immediately became close friends: “When Sánchez tendered his resignation from his position as General Secretary and Deputy, José Luis Ábalos immediately became one of his main supporters (…) and was probably also one of the people who exercised the greatest influence in persuading him to submit his candidacy again,” Tezanos adds in a book that contains in its central pages various photographs of Sánchez with Ábalos, and even with their wives.
But now no previous friendship is worth it. The government decided to go to war against the former minister, and he entrusted the journalistic part of his defense to his eldest son, taking note of everything he reported. Before entering Unit 13 of Soto del Real, Abalos issued a warning in statements to this medium, when the ministers were already talking about the “blackmail” to which he would expose them: “Their talk of blackmail means that there is something with which they can blackmail. Only those who can blackmail. They say: ‘We do not accept blackmail,’ and that seems to me very reckless. “Everything becomes very complicated,” he added.
“To be calm, you have to be in control,” he said as a warning to sailors. because? because “Coldo “It can lead to anything.” And not just him: Abalos left documents suggesting that, while it would not single-handedly bring down the government, it could erode Sánchez’s image.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was the interview that Abalos gave to this newspaper before entering prison, in which he referred to Begonia Gomez’s involvement in lobbying to save Air Europa: “The investigation into Air Europa will open the watermelon, and there we can reach Begonia. We can arrive safely.” He added that the company’s CEO, Javier Hidalgo“Of course talk to her” to put pressure on her husband.
Since then, Sanchez has no longer negotiated with his former right-hand man. “We were clear. “Everything Abalos says is a lie. Neither the government nor the Socialist Workers’ Party will accept blackmail or threats,” he said yesterday in interviews on RAC1 and TVE. Of course, even though it believes he is lying, the government is not considering filing a complaint against Abalos. The president explained: “From now on, it is time for the courts and this is where these issues must be resolved.”
He was asked about the fact that, at that time, he asked Mariano Rajoy Resigning due to his responsibility in the appointment Luis BarcenasSanchez escaped in this way: “I assumed these responsibilities by not saying ‘Luis, be strong’ – referring to the SMS sent by Rajoy to Bárcenas when it was already known that he kept millions in Switzerland – and separating the people and cooperating with justice.” Minutes later, Alberto Nunez Viejohead of the People’s Party, took the offensive rebound: “Saying he doesn’t know Abalos or Sirdan As if I’m saying I don’t know who he is tilado. “He will end up trying to convince us that he doesn’t know his wife or his brother.”
While everything is warm outside, it is “very cold” in prison, Abalos warns in X, now run by his supporters and fed by what he himself tells his relatives. The former minister reads parts of the Civil Code, a book he ordered from his former partner AndreaBut his lawyer Carlos Bautistait is better to read The Count of Monte Cristol Alexandre DumasWhich describes revenge on Edmundo Dantes In front of those who imprisoned him. It is the mother of all literary revenge. “Only those who can blackmail.”