He denies everything, even the truth. But already sleep in the prison of Soto del Real. Santos Cerdán entered the Madrid V penitentiary center on Monday by order of magistrate Leopoldo Puente. The crimes of bribery, criminal organization and influence peddling in the framework of the investigation into the alleged corruption plot of the Ministry of Transportation in the stage of José Luis Ábalos are charged. And yet, it rains …
Government and PSOE treat, without much success, to minimize the impact. Well, not all the PSOE and not the entire government. The novelty of this crisis is that even among the most Sanchistas the sensation of a slow agony and that the legislature will hardly reach 2027. Then there is the regular critics union around a kind of synchronized conjunction with the political and media right so that early elections are convened. Also medium paintings that point to the need to convene an extraordinary congress. And several ministers who, although they describe as “legally incomprehensible” the magistrate car, demand without specifying drastic decisions. Everyone, yes, coincide in the seriousness of the situation, in which the damage is irreparable.
Not surprisingly, the indications that the judge had described as “consistent” after the investigation of the Civil Guard against Cerdán are now, after his statement before the Supreme, “notaries.” If until now the conversations with the former Minister Ábalos and his ex -asor, Koldo García, were the main and most solid indication to sustain the imputation of Cerdán, the magistrate has described in his last car that former number three of the PSOE could be the leader of that “vertical” plot. In other words: Cerdán would no longer be one more in the cast of the bites, but in charge of claiming, collecting and distributing them.
And all this five days after a critical Federal Committee next Saturday in which Pedro Sánchez is expected to announce changes. Punctual? Structural? The president of the Government has all the options on the table and, so far, discards that of the extraordinary congress to which some ministers point out as an option that would silence critics and show the lack of alternative to Sánchez. In the nearest environment of the president, however, by a new structure of the direction that reduces the number of areas and incorporates new faces, beyond the Ministry of Organization that left Vacant Cerdán after knowing the devastating report of the UCO. And, in any case, they work in a new “survival story” with party regeneration measures. This in regards to the party. The next day 9 Sánchez will also appear in the Congress of Deputies and announce a broad legislative package with anti -corruption measures, as the partners demand.
Among those who, such as Emiliano García Page, believe that Sanchez enters the time of a discount and that everything he does or says onwards will only serve to prolong the esteror and those who argue that the political impact of the entry into prison of Cerdán is not paid with cosmetic changes in the executive, there are those who fear that research scales beyond what Pilar joy called “the toxic trio” Ábalos/Koldo/Cerdán and uncovers an alleged irregular financing of the party. In that case, there would be a game over: Neither the economy nor the international agenda, nor the social policies would serve for the investiture partners to continue maintaining support for Sánchez.
The fact is that the decision of the Supreme Judge caught an important representation of the Government in Seville on Monday for the inaugural session of the Summit on the Financing to the Development of the United Nations. And from there La Moncloa tried to put distance with Cerdán. Sánchez himself was responsible for remembering that the PSOE acted “bluntly from the first moment” and said, solemn: “We have assumed responsibilities. We separate Cerdán and now it is the time of justice, which is who has to settle responsibilities. ”
His words did not serve, at all, to weave a PSOE that remains in shock from the UCO report that precipitated the exit of the Cerdán from the Ministry of Organization and whose leaders surprised the decision of the magistrate of the Supreme Court of sending to prison to former number three of the party.
The Socialists qualify Leopoldo Puente as a “reliable” judge from the legal point of view, although they do not finish understanding the reasons why on the 20th day he denied the entrance and registration at the domicile of Cerdán and agreed to postpone his statement and, this Monday, he sent it to prison. “If there was so much risk of escape, why didn’t he stop him before and he took a statement?” They wonder. The same interlocutors add that the order agreed by the prison “details a lot of the indications of crime, but little the reasons for the prison” and that it is inexplicable why the judge and prosecutor Luzón avoided the jail to José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García, but they order it for Cerdán.
The political impact of Cerdán’s exit on a van on the way to jail is in any case an image that marks a turning point in a legislature that was already presumed uncertain by the accumulation of judicial investigations that affect Sanchez’s environment and due to the lack of general state budgets. In the government they are convinced, beyond the guilt of Cerdán and Ábalos, that the media, political right and, especially, the judicial one have followed the slogan of Aznar to the letter: “The one who can do, to do.”
The socialists assume that they will have a summer of shocks and that the judicial horizon that remains in front of them cannot be more discouraging. With the State Attorney General about to sit on the bench; The decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura (Tsjex) also rejecting this Monday the maneuver of Miguel Ángel Gallardo, leader of the Extremadura socialists, with his exprés’ aforement Hiring of the advisor of Begoña Gómez, everything is likely to get worse.
Cerdán prison entry has an undeniable political impact and increases the severity of the crisis and that is a political reading that the government should not avoid because the right will not stop squeezing the nuts. And this is no longer going on bulles and misinformation, even if there are still them, but of a concerted and implacable offensive against a progressive government.
Source: www.eldiario.es
