ALERT: PSOE spokesperson Montse Mínguez accuses the judges of being in a hurry “so that the Government falls before the summer”
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The keys Generated with AI Montse Mínguez, spokesperson for the PSOE, accuses the judges of accelerating cases against the party to force the fall of the Government before the summer. Mínguez defends the innocence of former President Zapatero, accused of four crimes in the Plus Ultra case, and ensures the transparency of the PSOE. The spokesperson criticizes the difference in judicial pace between cases that affect the PSOE and the PP, citing the case of Cristóbal Montoro. Socialist ministers have also attacked judges and the UDEF, questioning their impartiality in corruption investigations. The spokesperson for the PSOE Executive, Montse Mínguez, has suggested this Saturday that the judges are accelerating the investigation of the cases that affect socialist leaders because they are “in a hurry for the Government to fall before the summer.” In an interview on RNE, Mínguez has criticized the “hurry” with which the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has summoned former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to declare next week as under investigation, while in other cases harm the PP, judicial actions are slower. The PSOE spokesperson has maintained that “a judicial calendar is being set in great haste so that the Government falls before the summer.” Mínguez has reiterated the party’s “full confidence” in former president Zapatero, who is already accused of four alleged crimes in the Plus Ultra case: influence peddling, money laundering, tax crime and smuggling. So far there are only police investigations against him, but no judicial ruling that points him guilty, the PSOE spokesperson has argued. Asked about the Supreme Court’s ruling on former minister José Luis Ábalos for the masks case, which will be heard in the coming weeks, Mínguez has indicated that she cannot respond for “a person who has not been a militant for two and a half years.” She has also downplayed the relevance of the fact that Judge Santiago Pedraz has summoned the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, to testify due to her relationship with the plumber Leire Díez. Montse Mínguez has assured that Narbona is very “calm” in the face of this summons. “Narbona knew the people,” she said in reference to the plumber Leire Díez, “but by knowing the people one is not guilty. In this country there is the right to assembly, big headlines are being made to cover up what is important, which is the political, economic and social agenda that the Government is developing.” And to avoid any doubt, the PSOE spokesperson has assured that she has never seen Leire in Ferraz: “You can look at me the telephone number, I don’t even have his number.” Because, he has developed, the PSOE “does not hide” and “demonstrates maximum transparency” in the face of corruption cases. Montse Mínguez has contrasted this intense judicial agenda of the PSOE, with the situation of other cases that affect the PP. As he recalled, the former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro has been charged for a year, “and still no one has called him to testify.” And from all this he has concluded that there is “a calendar judicial in a hurry so that the Government falls before the summer. Something that, he has assured, is not going to happen. The PSOE spokesperson has thus joined the attacks that several ministers have directed against the judges, to discredit the cases that investigate cases of corruption. The Minister of Digital Transformation, Óscar López, was categorical on Thursday when stating that “there are judges who prevaricate. And if it is not them, it is someone around them, so that they understand me.”López spoke these words during the presentation of an award from the newspaper Public to the former Attorney General of the State Álvaro García Ortiz, sentenced to two years of disqualification as the author of a crime of revealing secrets. Already a week ago, Minister Óscar López accused the judges of making fiction when investigating the cases: “I have seen how summaries are written that could be submitted for the Planeta Prize for best literary work,” he ironized during an event by the Socialist Youth. And the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, dedicated a 10-minute video to discredit the work of the UDEF, the elite unit that investigates cases of economic corruption, acting as the Judicial Police. Puente accused the UDEF of “lack of rigor”, of “muddling everything” and of including “fallacies” and “absurd and ridiculous speculations” in its reports. He did so to discredit the UDEF reports that have led Judge Calama to charge Zapatero with four alleged crimes.News in updateWe are working on the expansion of this information. Shortly, the EL ESPAÑOL editorial staff will update you on all the data on this news. To receive breaking news on your mobile phone, you can download our newspaper application for iOS and Android devices, as well as subscribe to access all exclusive content, receive our Newsletters and enjoy the Ñ Zone, only for subscribers.
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