Alberto Núñez Feijóo asked Pedro Sánchez last Thursday “not to hide” and give explanations about the Koldo case. But since then, he had let other senior PP officials shake the PSOE over the alleged corruption plot. Until this Wednesday, during the control session, when the head of the opposition pointed directly to the President of the Government. “You knew it and you covered it up,” Feijóo launched, from the bench and without evidence. The leader of the PP did not comment on the departure of former minister José Luis Ábalos to the Mixed Group on Tuesday and waited for the plenary session in Congress to monopolize all the focus on the dog-eat-dog confrontation with Sánchez. In the national leadership of the PP they do not believe that turning the investigation into the purchase of masks into a weapon of destruction could turn against them. And they see in the new front that has been opened to the Government by a case of alleged corruption, an opportunity for electoral wear in the European and Basque elections, even greater than the amnesty, say sources from the party leadership and the Basque PP.
In its opposition strategy – completely reoriented after the arrest of Koldo García Izaguirre, former collaborator of Ábalos –, the PP has created a specific working group to analyze the means of attack. The popular ones have also appeared as a popular accusation in the investigation being investigated by the National Court, so they will have access to the summary, which they will use to repeatedly charge against the Government. “The horizon is good no matter what. Starts the rock and roll”, anticipates a member of the executive. The offensive of Feijóo’s party is now focused on eroding the Government with the “ordeal” of the Koldo case from all fronts and set the framework of the debate “on the corruption of the PSOE”, add other sources from around Feijóo. “This has just begun.”
The new tactic was already reflected this Wednesday, as the majority of popular deputies responded to their questions posed during the control session with matters related to the alleged corrupt network. An escalation of decibels in which they also made unfounded accusations. Sánchez and the socialist ministers of the PSOE defended themselves by recalling the black accounting of the PP proven in the Bárcenas case or the fall of the former leader of the PP Pablo Casado after the controversy surrounding the brother of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for charging commissions on the purchase of masks. A “boomerang” that the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, referred to during his speech.
But at the headquarters in Genoa they do not fear that the Koldo case Derivatives emerge in which regional governments of the PP may be involved. Nor do they consider it a double-edged sword to hammer the PSOE with corruption, considering the sentences that have affected members of the party or the trials still in progress, such as the case regarding Operation Kitchen. Sources from the popular leadership argue that these procedures are part of the past, when Feijóo was not in charge, and insist that the accusation against Díaz Ayuso’s brother did not go any further. The Prosecutor’s Office saw no crime and a court filed it. The socialists do understand that there was political responsibility, as they maintain regarding Ábalos. The popular leadership emphasizes, on the other hand, that Ábalos will have a media presence in the halls of Congress while the former PP accountant Luis Bárcenas is on the sidelines.
The popular ones will not leave aside, in any case, the confrontation over the amnesty. The bill on the grace measure is voted on again next week in Congress, but Feijóo’s cabinet estimates that the Koldo case It could take away more votes from the PSOE than the amnesty in the European elections due to the seriousness of the alleged crimes and the “uncouth image” shown by the socialists. Along the same lines, other high-ranking sources in the Basque PP point to the possibility that the scandal will lead to a higher level of abstention among the PSE-EE electorate in the April 21 election.
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In addition to the investigation commission registered in the Senate, the PP parliamentary group in the Upper House has presented a battery of written questions about the plot and a request for information addressed to the Government about the contracts signed between the company of the Koldo case and ADIF, Puertos del Estado, Correos and Renfe.
In parallel, the PP parliamentary group in Congress registered another 25 questions this Wednesday, to which it added two requests for urgent plenary appearances addressed to the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente; and six other requests for several senior officials of the Socialist Administration to appear before the Transport Commission and the Treasury Commission, including the presidents of ADIF, State Ports and the Post Office.
In turn, the popular ones have begun to act in the communities with more parliamentary initiatives in the autonomous assemblies where they govern. And they will report the facts to the EU.
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