The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, sent this Wednesday to the Court of Instruction of Catarroja all the documentation referring to your communicationswith the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazonduring the day of October 29, 2024, when the dana hit several municipalities hard of the Community.
Official sources around Feijóo confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL that the PP leader sent a letter to accredit “his absolute willingness to collaborate in the investigation” opened after Mazón’s statement before the investigating judge. “As I would do in any circumstance, but with more reason in a matter that affects Dana’s victims and their families,” underline the same sources.
The document, sent this morning, also includes theupon Feijóo’s formal request for his witness statement to be preserved by telematic meansin accordance with the provisions of current legislation. The popular president thus invokes the possibility of appearing by videoconference, a usual procedure fully recognized by the Criminal procedure law.
The court offered Feijóo the possibility of voluntarily transmitting messages exchanged with Mazón that day. Although I didn’t have to do it.the Galician leader presented a notarial deed which attests to all these messages exchanged by WhatsApp on October 29.
According to the letter sent, there were no phone calls, emails or any other system of communication with Mazón during these critical hours. The documentation provided includes the full content of the conversations and the context in which they took place, “to facilitate their understanding and evaluation within the framework of the judicial investigation”, they specify from their environment.
“Transparency and collaboration are the best guarantee that Justice acts with freedom and rigor. » provide the same sources. “This is not a political question, but rather a question of institutional and human respect for those who suffered the consequences of this storm.”
Feijóo insists on his usual message of confidence in the rule of law. “The Popular Party has full confidence in Justice and will not contribute to its discredit, initiated by the Spanish government,” the letter states. “In Spain, there is no law. Judges’ decisions are not opposed, they are respected.”
The content of the messages, explain well-informed sources, reflects the institutional coordination between Genoa and the Palau de la Generalitat to monitor the evolution of the emergency. Some of these refer to the deployment of central government resources and efforts to serve the most affected municipalities.
With this delivery, the leader of PP He wants to dispel any doubt about his role that day and clarify any political interpretation of the case. “Feijóo places himself at the disposal of Justice, as he has always done”, sums up those around him.
On the part of the national leadership of the party, they emphasize that the Collaboration with education “must be an example of respect for state institutions”.“The PP does not share the government’s strategy of questioning judicial independence, nor of using open cases to divide Spaniards.”
The court must now respond to the popular president’s request to testify electronically, likely in the coming weeks, before closing this phase of the investigation.
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