The Popular Party will assert its absolute majority in the Senate to summon to testify in the investigative commission of the Koldo case to the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, who is imprisoned, and who will have to appear on January 8. The popular ones, who have enabled the month of January to continue appearances in the investigation commissions in the Upper House, demand that Ábalos say “everything he knows about Pedro Sánchez.”
“We hope that you choose the truth and explain how Sánchez’s candidacy in the primaries was financed, what irregularities there were, what was agreed with PNV and Otegi for the motion of censure, who ordered the companies in the plot to be hired, why Pedro Sánchez rehabilitated him and what he offered him for his silence,” summarized the PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, in an appearance this Tuesday.
As Ábalos is imprisoned, the spokesperson explained that the Senate will communicate the summons to the Soto del Real prison, in addition to Penitentiary Institutions and the Supreme Court, so that they can determine how to proceed.
The PP spokesperson in the Senate has defended that Ábalos “is not unknown to Pedro Sánchez” and will have to answer “for the plugs, the use of public resources, for his assets, and for his key role in the corrupt plots of Sanchismo,” she highlighted.
The former minister and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE is on the verge of trial after Judge Leopoldo Puente against Ábalos, his former advisor Koldo García and the commission agent Víctor de Aldama for integration into a criminal organization; continued bribery, active and passive; insider trading, taking advantage of insider information; influence peddling, embezzlement of public funds; falsity in official document and prevarication. Ábalos’ lawyer has demanded that the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court revoke that order to open an oral trial and instead by seven judges of the Supreme Court.
