The ‘purples’ return to register their own list of appearing parties and the commission will meet on Tuesday to try to unblock their jobs
MADRID, 14 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Unidas Podemos has once again registered its own proposal for appearing parties for the commission of inquiry into the so-called ‘sewers’ of the State during the PP stage, which includes former president Mariano Rajoy, former vice president and founder of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, and several journalists, some names that the PSOE still does not accept and that have made a joint list of the two government partners impossible.
According to what parliamentary sources have informed Europa Press, the ‘purples’ tried until Thursday night to agree on a joint list of names with the Socialists, but the agreement was impossible and this Friday they have registered exactly the same list that they defended in the commission before of Easter.
In that first meeting, the commission chaired by the PDeCAT spokesman, Ferran Bel, managed to approve the work plan proposed by the PSOE but none of the lists of appearing parties proposed by the groups managed to go ahead. That is why a new term was opened for new proposals that is fulfilled this Friday.
The commission plans to meet again next Tuesday to try to approve a first list of appearing parties. From Unidas Podemos they do not anticipate what they will vote before the list that the PSOE puts on the table.
In the previous meeting, the names raised by the PSOE, mostly police officers, including former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, and some political leaders such as the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz, or the former general secretary of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, they were only supported by the PNV and the PDeCAT. United We Can and the rest of the usual parliamentary partners abstained and the proposal was defeated with the noes of the PP and Vox.
From Unidas Podemos they accuse the Socialists of refusing to investigate the media aspect of the sewers and of wanting to focus only on the police plot, a leg that, the confederal group points out, has already been accredited in the previous investigative commissions held in Congress. This is the fourth parliamentary investigation since 2017 that affects the PP.
The minority partner of the coalition government maintains that this time it is a price to deepen this collaboration of the ‘sewers’ with certain media to “attack political rivals of the PP” and, in this framework, they are requesting to question both various representatives of those means as Pablo Iglesias, in his condition of direct affected of the plot.
They also call attention to the fact that the PSOE refuses to call ex-president Mariano Rajoy to appear again, whom they point to as the possible “highest political person in charge of the plot.” A total of six parties have asked to question Rajoy again in Congress.
