“It’s not enough to pretend to be angry and do nothing. “Less fine words and more political action.” This is how the Deputy Secretary General for Institutional Regeneration of the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, described on Monday the position adopted by Yolanda. … Díaz, second vice president of the Sumar branch government, on the cases of corruption and sexual harassment that surround the executive led by Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE.
During the traditional Monday press conference at the popular headquarters in Genoa, Gamarra criticized the fact that Díaz simply makes an “angry face” and demands “explanations” as scandals within the government multiply. According to what the PP deputy also declared, if the second vice-president “wants to clean up Spanish politics”, she must “do much more» than what you are doing right now. Sumar “has the power” for Sánchez to run for the Congress of Deputies if he joins the Popular Party at the Council meeting. For Gamarra, if they prevent the President of the Government from being held accountable to Parliament and allow him to “hide and flee”, they will show that they only seek to continue in their “desks and chairs”.
On the PP side, they demanded that the minority partner of the government make “less empty words” and act “politically”. It is for this reason that Gamarra invited the vice president and Sumar’s ministers to provoke a “crisis” within the Executive. “Like? Resign”, declared the popular, recalling that it is “ayes, that’s how you should act“. From Genoa, aware of the low probability of success of their request, they wonder “what Sumar knows to be so uncomfortable” in the corruption plots and therefore accuse Díaz of being “as complicit and responsible” as Sánchez.
If ultimately the extraordinary plenary session that the PP requested for Sánchez to respond to the latest corruption investigations does not take place, Gamarra announced his party’s intention to allow “the month of January in the Senate so that the work of the Koldo commission can continue” and continue “to progress so that the Spaniards know the truth”. For the most popular, these winter holidays will help Sánchez to “hide” and avoid explaining why he “covered up corruption” within his party.
Review of the Sánchez year and the “Montero case”
This Tuesday, the Government carried out its usual end-of-year review. The PP considers that this is done too early, while “even the schoolchildren have not gone on vacation”, because they are “in a hurry” for the end of the year. This evaluation, described as a “gathering” by Gamarra, was carried out by “the UCO, the UDEF, the judicial orders and the courageous complaints of sexual harassment brought by the women of the PSOE”. “This government only benefits Pedro Sánchez,” lamented the popular man, adding that “this allows him to anchor himself in power” and that Spain “does not benefit from it at all.”
The popular accused Sánchez of being “at the origin of all the corruption” and that if he had really been “strong” in front of her, he would have resigned and called elections. He then listed the various scandals known in recent days, such as the arrests of Leire Díez, PSOE plumber; Antxon Alonso, former partner of Santos Cerdán at Servinabar; or the former president of SEPI and former right-hand man of Minister María Jesús Montero, Vicente Moreno; in what the PP already called the “Montero case”. “The People’s Party is not going to remain impassive in the face of this new plot,” said Gamarra, announcing that his party will appear in this case, because it affects three ministries and companies that depend on them.
Finally, regarding the appearance of the secretary of the Organization of Socialists, Rebeca Torró, last Friday to explain the actions of her party with the complaints of sexual harassment, the deputy regretted that the PSOE will spend five months without “doing anything” while it was “aware” of the internal complaints against Francisco Salazar. “The PSOE used these protocols to hide the harasser and silence and isolate the complainant and the victim, Ms. Torró recognized this,” said Gamarra, admitting that it is “regrettable” that it was women who acted “in this way to protect and hide the president’s men.”