“If he does not resign, it must be his party that acts,” says Gamarra, who warns that the PP will promote initiatives to get him to leave if he does not do so.
MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leadership of the PP has come out in a storm this Friday against the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, and has demanded her immediate resignation for “endorsing” the plot of the so-called ‘Koldo case’ so that she could continue hiring when she was president of the Government of the Balearic Islands. The ‘popular’ consider that their situation is “unsustainable” because the third authority of the State cannot be under suspicion nor “increasingly involved in a scandal of these characteristics.”
“This is an unsustainable situation. The first thing he has to do is resign. If Armengol does not resign, it must be his party that acts,” Gamarra declared in an interview on Telecinco, which Europa Press has collected, given the information that is being spread. knowing about this case of alleged commission collection on the purchase of masks during the pandemic.
Gamarra has stressed that the information that is becoming known shows that the president of Congress “endorsed” the plot so that they could continue hiring and doing business and “did not demand the money”, even though she knew that the masks they sold her “were not valid and could not be used”.
For all these reasons, Gamarra has stressed that Armengol cannot “remain one more minute as the third authority of the State” after the information about “irregularities that are increasing every day.” In his opinion, the reaction from his own responsibility should be to resign because he “did not demand the money and endorsed that they continue hiring”, but if he does not do so the PSOE should “act”.
“And if not, then obviously we will be the ones who will also promote initiatives, at least, to continue politically demanding this resignation,” Gamarra warned, adding that this plot already affects the president of Congress and “close to the PSOE and Pedro Sanchez”.
The ‘popular’ spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, has also spoken about Armengol, who has maintained that the former president of the Balearic Islands “has not been deceived” by a company that sold a defective product, but rather collaborated “with this plot” by did not claim the money and that he also issued “knowingly false reports.”
“Armengol cannot continue one more minute at the head of Congress. It is nonsense because this lady is not ethically, politically, or morally qualified to continue even one more day,” he stressed in an interview on Es Radio, collected by Europa Press, in which he once again said that “it is very implausible” that he could provide any type of help to the socialist leader.
For her part, the Deputy Secretary of Organization of the PP, Carmen Fúnez, criticized in an interview on RNE that Armengol presented a claim for the defective masks “the day he was leaving”, when he should have done so “three years earlier”.
In his opinion, Armengol’s actions were “a concatenation” of “illegalities” because he only took action on the matter when he knew that “another Government was arriving, which was that of Mrs. (Marga) Prohens, of the PP.” For this reason, and since he is now “the third authority of the State”, he has stressed the need for him to resign for not representing “the rigor and seriousness” that the position requires.
Likewise, in another interview on Antena 3, the PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, has demanded explanations from the Government of Pedro Sánchez for the ‘Koldo case’ and has criticized the fact that they are not being produced.
“Far from giving answers and transparency, whoever arrived as president of dignity and a dignified Government, today is evident as the president of indignity,” he emphasized, to also accuse the PSOE of putting up a “kind of absurd fan” for ” not accounting for what is happening and what he knew.
Sémper has indicated that the information that is becoming known shows that they are facing “an absolutely irregular, unacceptable and disgusting way of functioning” because “in the worst moments of the pandemic, when Spaniards were locked up at home”, there were politicians who “were “They behaved in an absolutely irresponsible manner” and “bites” were carried out to “enrich a few”. “And no one accounts for it, no one assumes any responsibility. This is truly regrettable,” he stated.
The leader of the PP has stated that they have the Government “engaged in this quagmire and is incapable of providing answers to the problems” of the Spanish people. “It is a Government in absolute decomposition,” he emphasized, adding that the statements they are making show the “panic” in which the PSOE is immersed and “the inability to give sensible and credible responses.”
Sémper stressed that “everything they are seeing is disgusting”, especially because “it occurred in a very painful context”, in the middle of a pandemic. “It is painful and it is disgusting because we have a very bullish Government that gives lessons to all the rest of us on how to behave in life, but that is incapable of reacting forcefully and clearly when they have to do so,” he added.
The PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, has also requested – on the social network ‘X’ – the resignation of Armengol, ensuring that “he is one more of the PSOE plot”, given that “he knew that the masks were defective and he lied.”
“It is inadmissible that he continues one more minute at the head of the Congress of Deputies. Like Sánchez, he knew it and covered it up,” García stated, adding that “Minister 23 should resign immediately.
