In his letter, signed by Gamarra and Pons, he asks to notify the Prosecutor’s Office if he believes that he may have incurred criminal responsibility.
MADRID, 14 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Popular Party has requested in its complaint – which it will register this Wednesday with the Conflict of Interest Office – that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, be disqualified “between 5 and 10 years” for “not abstaining” from the rescue of Air Europa, a company that, according to the PP, “had ties of an economic and professional nature with his wife, Begoña Gómez.”
The PP announced this afternoon that it will register its complaint with the Conflict of Interest Office this Thursday, although given that the registration can only be made by appointment and given the impossibility of it being given tomorrow, the party will present its document via telematics, training sources have told Europa Press.
The document, to which this agency has had access, lists the facts that, in the opinion of the group led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, have led to this complaint before the Conflict of Interest Office dependent on the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Public Foundation directed by José Luis Escrivá, thus taking another step in its offensive against the Government for the alleged plot in the purchase of masks that affects the PSOE, baptized as ‘Koldo case’.
Thus, the PP denounces that “the personal interests, of an economic and professional nature, of the wife of the President of the Government were also benefited, with the aforementioned agreements of the Council of Ministers, due to the special relationship that she maintained at such times with the Globalia Group”, thus arguing that Sánchez broke the law by “not inhibiting himself”.
The complaint continues to cite, among other points, the appointment of Begoña Gómez as director of the IE Africa Center in August 2018 until June 2022. “The legal nature of the relationship between Begoña Gómez and the IE is unknown: yes “was an employment relationship, a commercial relationship with Begoña Gómez acting as a self-employed worker, or a service relationship between the Instituto de Empresa and a commercial company of which Begoña Gómez was a controlling partner and/or administrator,” the document states. .
Thus, in the presentation of legal considerations the Popular Party recalls that senior officials who have the status of authority “will refrain from intervening in the corresponding administrative procedure when, because it affects their personal interests (…) the causes provided for in Law 30/1992, of November 26, on the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and the Common Administrative Procedure”.
For all these reasons, the ‘popular’ consider that Sánchez “has breached the duty of abstention” in Councils of Ministers “with respect to the economic support measures granted to the Globalia group in the aforementioned agreements.”
Along these lines, the complaint – signed by the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, and the deputy secretary of Institutional Action of the PP, Esteban González Pons – maintains that, if the reported facts are proven, they would be facing a serious infraction. to which corresponds the sanction of “impossibility of holding a high position for a period of between 5 and 10 years”.
On the other hand, they have asked to transfer to the Prosecutor’s Office, in the event that there are indications that criminal liability may have been incurred, of the documentation in their possession “given the connection of any of the companies mentioned in the facts” of the written.
Likewise, they have asked to open preliminary proceedings to investigate the reported behavior and initiate the appropriate procedure, as well as to notify the competent Ministry – in the event that it is confirmed that Sánchez has breached his obligation to abstain – for the “initiation of the timely file”.
The leader of the PP himself, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had already announced this Tuesday that his party wants to know what is behind Sánchez’s wife’s contacts with Globalia because “it smells bad.” In fact, he warned on Onda Cero that they could be facing an alleged conflict of interest.
