The left hand of Maria Jesus Montero He does not know what his right hand is doing, nor his right hand, because the first vice-president of the Government has several. Or had them. Because the truth is that he forgets them with astonishing ease, so … so that he does not remember their names in an astonishing attack of amnesia unworthy of someone who has in mind the stories of the whole world. State regardless of their extension.
The most obvious manifestation of the forgetting syndrome from which the leader of the socialists of Andalusia It is the automatic erasure of the identity of his once close collaborators as soon as they fall into the abyss of a corrupt conspiracy, who acquire the gift of impersonality, of pure anonymity as if they were complete strangers, very distant people with whom if he ever had dealings it was by chance and in passing.
one day you call Vicente Fernández, Santos Cerdán, José Luis Ábalos either Francisco Jose Salazar and the next day you become “a gentleman” or simply “a person” without a first name and of course a last name.
The general secretary of PSOE of Andalusia has made a complete art of the political fray in recent weeks. Those who were previously “valuable collaborators” for whom he did not hesitate to put his “hand to the fire” are reduced as soon as things get complicated to individuals with whom he has long lost all ties and whose life and professional or political future he has “no idea”.
The forgetful mentor
This is the case of Vicente Fernándezarrested at the end of the week by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and was investigated for crimes of prevarication, embezzlement, influence peddling and membership in a criminal organization. “I have no contact with him. “I learned about what happened through the media,” said the head of the Treasury of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez about the lawyer of the Andalusian Government since 1999, whom she elevated to the Regional Administration in 2016 as auditor general when she was advisor in the last Government of Susana Díaz.
“He was only about a year old SEPI“and “there is no environment that I have shared with him for more than six years, we have no mutual friends”, added these days María Jesús Montero about the law graduate from the University of Seville whom she took to Madrid when Sánchez appointed her minister in 2018 and placed him at the head of the State Company of Industrial Participations with an annual salary of 220,000 euros, i.e. more than double that of the president of the government.
Santos Cerdán with Montero at the Congress of Deputies
Seven years ago, Vicente Fernández was, according to Montero, a “valuable collaborator” who had “an entire career within the Junta de Andalucía and with a professional profile that supports his appointment” at the head of the SEPIwhich he left in October 2019 while he was the subject of an investigation by a court in Seville for the attribution of the exploitation of the Aznalcóllar mine, a cause for which he has just been acquitted. “I don’t even have a WhatsApp from him… Nothing», has now decided the leader of the Andalusian socialists.
It’s still the same thing with Santos Cerdan, former organizational secretary of the party at the national level, who spent five months in Soto del Real prison for being one of the ringleaders of the alleged corruption plot to collect commissions on public works.
“Santos Cerdán is an honest civil servant and I have a friendly relationship with him”
Maria Jesus Montero
Vice President of the Government
“Cerdán is an honest civil servant and one of the best organizing secretaries this party has had in its entire history: I hope he continues for many years. “I also have a friendly relationship with him, for whom I put my hand to the fire.” These words from the Minister of Finance came before the UCO report which put Cerdán in a very complicated situation. From then on, María Jesús Montero forgot the name of her much appreciated friend, whom she already cited as “a person” who, moreover, “has nothing to do with the Socialist Party” and from whom she hoped that “justice would reach the end”.
Ábalos also went from being a colleague of Hunter in the Councils of Ministers to an additional citizen. “From the start, he asked this person to submit the report, to assume political responsibilities,” he said when the former minister of Transportation He went to prison, where he remains. for the illegal purchase of masks.
The Minister of Finance suffered a new attack of amnesia with the former senior figure of the PSOE and former advisor to the Pedro Sanchez at La Moncola Francisco Jose Salazaraccused of sexual harassment. One morning, they were attending meetings at the highest management level of Ferraz and the other, well, he was just any gentleman. “At the moment this man is not a member (of the PSOE) and the important thing is that we are all consistent with the party,” Dr. Montero said when the scandal of the alleged harassment broke.
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