The opposition leader has encouraged the Government’s partners to rebel after the statement of the commissioner of the Koldo case before the National Court. For Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Víctor de Aldama’s revelations confirm what the PP has been denouncing for months: that “corruption fully affects” the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez and his personal entourage. And given what Feijóo has renamed ‘the Sánchez case’, “it is time to act.” A message that not only applies to himself as opposition leader but also extends to all parliamentary groups that, in his opinion, “protect the Government.” Thus, he has offered to lead a change in Moncloa: “I do not have the votes to change the Government but I am available to open a new stage in our country.”
The commission agent in the Koldo case has assured the judge that he paid 400,000 euros in black to Ábalos, 200,000 to Koldo García and 15,000 to Santos Cerdán; that the photo with the president “was not fortuitous” as Ferraz alleged and that Sánchez had planned to have dinner with Delcy Rodríguez on a trip that the Venezuelan took to Spain in secret and of which the president denied knowledge. In Feijóo’s eyes, all this information confirms that Sánchez’s Government “stinks of lies and corruption.”
For this reason, and given his lack of support to present a motion of censure, he has demanded the president resign. “In the PP we are not going to support the desire to drag our entire country into this judicial agony. Sánchez must resign and his government will go with him.” He has also anticipated any denial that Sánchez and his team may make about Aldama’s statement. For Feijóo “there is no way to air everything with ‘everything is a lie’ nor is it worth hiding nor can the answer be to continue move forward as if nothing were happening.”
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