Alberto Núñez Feijóo came out this Tuesday in defense of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, after the Prosecutor’s Office denounced his partner for allegedly defrauding the Treasury of 350,951 euros. Feijóo has separated what happens to Ayuso’s partner from the political responsibility of the Madrid leader. “Ayuso, as far as I know, does not have any inspection from the Tax Agency,” stated the leader of the PP on Onda Cero. Feijóo has also reflected that Ayuso’s partner “will have to respond” to the Treasury, thus giving credibility to the information about the alleged fraud. Feijóo has also had to speak out about the controversial management of José María Aznar’s Government on 11-M, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the attack. The popular leader has balanced: he has admitted, unlike the former president and FAES, that the Aznar Government “did not manage 11-M well” because the PP “lost the elections”, although he has defended his “good faith” and has attributed to the police a “change of opinion” about the authorship of the attack.
Feijóo had to respond this Tuesday to two hot issues that affect his party: the anniversary of 11-M, always uncomfortable for the PP, and the news known today that the Prosecutor’s Office signed a complaint on February 13 for two crimes of tax fraud and a crime of forgery in a commercial document against a group of five people, including Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
After Feijóo, the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has also supported Ayuso. The popular leader maintains that the complaint by the Prosecutor’s Office against the partner of the president of the Community of Madrid for defrauding the Treasury of 350,951 euros is “a personal matter” of Alberto González Amador, Ayuso’s boyfriend. “The issue you are talking about,” Tellado answered at a press conference in Congress, distancing himself from the case, “is a personal matter of the person to whom this information refers.” The spokesperson stressed that this is “a person who is not in political life.”
In parallel, Tellado has agreed with the Madrid leader that “it is evident that there is a hunt by the PSOE against her” and has defended that the political debate should not enter into “personal” issues of public representatives. “I find it regrettable to cross the personal barrier and I certainly do not give opinions on personal issues,” she insisted. However, the PP does not apply this scale in its accusations against the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, whom it tries to implicate in the Koldo case based on some journalistic information that has not been reported in any judicial procedure.
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Feijóo left other important reflections in the interview about 11-M. In contrast to the vision of José María Aznar, who this Monday insisted through a statement from the FAES foundation in exonerating himself with more hoaxes about the controversial management of the attack, the current leader of the PP judges those days differently. This Tuesday, Feijóo defended the “good faith” of the former president of the PP, also attributing to the police “a change of opinion regarding the authorship” of 11-M, but at the same time he is the first leader of the PP to recognize that the party “he didn’t manage those days well.”
“Mr Ibarretxe, when he apologized on behalf of the Basque people, thought he was doing the right thing. I think that President Aznar thought that he was doing the right thing,” Feijóo reflected in the interview. “Later, we discovered that the perpetrators were not who the Government and the police thought they were. It cost the PP elections to manage that crisis,” he added. “I understand that we did not manage those days well if we lost the elections,” he stressed.
“We are not all equal. There are people who can be confused, but there are people who act in good faith. And there are other people who act in bad faith, and try to make others believe that they act in good faith,” defended the leader of the PP, in reference to former president Aznar.
Asked if Aznar told the truth on March 11, Feijóo answered: “I told Mr. Aznar what the police said. At first the police said one thing, then they changed their mind. Mr. Acebes [ministro del Interior en aquella etapa] “I was telling that.” That is to say, the leader of the PP admits poor management of the days of the attack, but leaves in the air the question of what was the error or “confusion” that the Aznar Government incurred, since he gives credence to the fact that the The executive at the time only said the same thing that the police said.
Defense of Aznar
This Monday, the PP leadership came out in defense of Aznar in the face of the “attacks” that it maintains that it receives for its management of the attack, although the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, avoided answering the question of whether she feels proud of that management.
In the interview, Feijóo also spoke about the amnesty. The leader of the PP has committed to repeal the law that contemplates the measure of grace for Catalan independentists if he comes to power, although he has recognized that due to the principle of non-retroactivity of unfavorable criminal regulations, it is most likely that it cannot be reversed. the situation of Carles Puigdemont, if he is amnestied, like that of the rest of those affected by the rule. “If someone has been amnestied, I don’t think his amnesty can be invalidated,” the head of the conservatives admitted.
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