MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos has said that for his successor in the Organization Secretariat of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, all this is being “very hard”, in reference to what happened after the party’s ultimatum for him to renounce his record as deputy. Thus, he has indicated that Cerdán is not acting on his own initiative, but rather complying with what he requests from a “very disciplined leadership” with the requests of the Secretary General, Pedro Sánchez.
“Cerdán has not acted of his own accord. All of this is being very hard for him, as I said, because of the relationship we have between the two of us. He acts on behalf of the management,” Ábalos indicated in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, reporting that in the last meeting they had he personally asked him to resign his seat.
Asked if the ‘number three’ of the PSOE shares the decision to ask Ábalos for his deputy’s certificate, the former Minister of Transport added that Cerdán “is not going to go into sharing or not sharing” and that “he knows that it is his responsibility as secretary of Organization to do so”.
“I have been one too and I understand it. The Secretary of Organization always gets the worst penalty,” he added, reiterating that the decision is “from the management”, which “is very disciplined” with the requests of the Secretary General, Pedro Sanchez.
In this sense, Ábalos has recognized that he has “political responsibility” for having chosen Koldo García as his advisor, but that as “a colleague from Navarra” he gave him “all the guarantees”, he investigated less, referring to Cerdán.
“Santos is the same as me, we are in the same situation,” he continued, indicating that the current Secretary of Organization of the PSOE “was a friend of Koldo” and is “disappointed, surprised and upset” by his involvement in alleged bites in contracts for the sale of masks during the pandemic.
