“Cristóbal Montoro has communicated this morning his decision to leave his condition as an affiliate of the PP,” says the party itself in a brief statement sent to the media this Thursday. The former Minister of Finance with José María Aznar, first, and with Mariano Rajoy, later, has been charged, together with much of the team that accompanied him in both governments, for using his positions to favor companies.
“The PP Rights and Guarantees Committee had decided last night to open an information procedure related to this case,” says the same statement, adding that “said procedure is now suspended.”
The existence of this “information procedure” had not been transferred to the media throughout the morning, or in the public interviews offered by leaders of the PP or in the conversations with the press team of the party. In fact, the recently approved statutes of the PP only allows the “opening of a reserved information that may become disciplinary file” to the Autonomous Committees, not the National.
The note concludes: “Montoro was the only affiliate of the investigated positions.”
The PP thus tries to short -circuit the possible consequences that the imputation of who was one of the struts in the economic policies of the two governments that the party has led.
The recent XXI National Congress that re -elected the Galician as the party leader dedicated his opening day to applaud the two former presidents who had Montoro, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy. Both made a closed defense of their respective governments, but Rajoy also made an allegation about the fight against the “corruption” that, he said during his term.
With Rajoy as leader, the PP was convicted of benefiting from the Gürtel plot. It was the lever of the motion of censure that the government cost him.
After the conclave, the Aznar Faes Foundation issued a note in which he criticized the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for having described his governments as “the most corrupt in history.” “Not only because no minister of Aznar, or a person of his close confidence, nor familiar was involved in any criminal illicit for anything that had to do with his government, but because, in addition, Aznar owes his academic degree and his professional career to fraud.”
Montoro defends himself
Hours later, Montoro has criticized the judicial order that imputes him by considering that he does it “without any probative element” and “coinciding with the current context of true scandals of the Government of Spain.”
Montoro has sent a statement to EFE after the judicial order that includes it as investigated for the creation of an “network of influences” to favor with legislative modifications to gase -manufacturing companies in exchange for “important payments” to the Economic Equipment Society (EE), of which it was a founding partner and president and with which he assures that he has no relationship since 2008.
Source: www.eldiario.es
