The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said Monday that “there are judges doing politics and politicians trying to do justice”, when asked in a TVE interview with the situation of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, but also on the alleged cases of corruption that affect the PSOE or the investigation of his wife. “They do immense damage to justice,” he said.
“I will always be with judges and prosecutors who fight against corruption and pursue the offender,” said the chief of the Executive, who has assured that he believes in the innocence of the Attorney General, charged with the Supreme Court in the case of the filtration of the mail of the confession of Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, prosecuted for a tax fraud.
Regarding the cases of corruption that persecute their former leaders of maximum trust such as José Luis Ábalos or Santos Cerdán, Sánchez has assured that “he had no objective information that they were committing alleged acts of corruption.” The chief of the Executive has added that since his party no irregular action has been “tolerated” and that when there have been suspicious, he has acted “relentlessly.”
Sanchez has assured that he has acted with “forcefulness” and has “collaborated” with justice and security forces and implement policies against corruption. He has also considered “intolerable” and “disgusting” the published conversations of Cerdán or Koldo García. Sanchez has said that he even thought about resigning, although he has reaffirmed his “commitment” to a “political project” like the one headed by his government.
“I am incompatible with corruption”
Asked about a possible irregular financing of the PSOE, Sánchez pointed out the following, in response to a good Pepa question: “If you ask me if there is an irregular financing of the PSOE, I tell you that there is no. But in any case, and safeguarding the principle of presumption of innocence, the organization has responded with total forcefulness. And I am absolutely incompatible with any form of corruption.”
Regarding the causes against his wife or his brother Sánchez, he lamented that the accusations that weigh on them come from “false complaints, of press clippings, of ultra -right organizations” that are presented in certain courts to open a cause, in this case against relatives. “And I, of course, defend his honesty and innocence.”
The president of the Government has been confident in Justice, although he has indicated that although “the vast majority of judges and prosecutors of our country do their work well and comply with the law, there are judges that do not.” “They are paying two people for the mere fact of being my relatives,” he said.
The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) Sánchez has asked for a reflection on “how to defend themselves before processes that are clearly very defective both in the background and the form.” “This is something that represents or that corresponds to the judiciary and, therefore, they will have to be the ones who value whether these instructions, if these open causes have the parameters of independence, of respect for the presumption of innocence that I think all citizens deserve in our country,” he said.
Budgets
Asked by the journalist Pepa Bueno, Sánchez has also committed to carrying a project of General State Budgets to Congress within the established period, but does not think about resigning if those accounts do not go ahead. “If (Parliament) the tomb that does not mean that the government will not continue to maintain its road map,” he said.
“Notice,” Sanchez told the news driver. From 2012 to 2018 how many general elections were there in our country, how many extended budgets? When I listen to the opposition manager to say that he wants to make a constitutional reform so that he cannot extend more than twice I do not know if he has agreed with his leaders, ”he has considered.
In any case, the Chief of the Executive has considered that “in a panorama so fragmented from the parliamentary point of view” it must be “keep in mind” that Spain “cannot be governed without recognizing and assuming political plurality and cultural diversity is a reality that also materializes in parliamentary groups”- has also said to have “all the tools to be able to meet” its objectives that, as they said, “they are the social agend economic ”.
On whether the meeting on Tuesday between the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the expressor Carles Puigdemont, has to do with an attempt by the government of binding the support of together to the budgets, Sánchez has denied it. In any case, he has considered that the encounter “from the political point of view” is “successful” when considering involving “forward, as the Catalan society and the whole of Spanish society are doing.”
Insults and “polarization”
Pepa Bueno has also asked Sanchez about the insults he receives many times in the streets or, more recently, in public events such as concerts. For him that climate is “the consequence of something” and “the cause” can be seen “in the lack of respect and consideration” of his adversaries, “I like the fruit '” of Ayuso or “in the open bar to insult the political adversary.”
“Polarization in Spain is asymmetric,” he said. “I do not insult, I can legitimately defend my ideas. But in one conversation one insults the other, in what terms should you answer?” “What I propose is to stop insulting ourselves, we defend our ideas with conviction and vehemence,” he concluded.
A Abascal: “Are you going to ask for a plane in Barajas?”
Sánchez, in addition, has shown his overwhelming rejection of the attitude that the right and the extreme right are maintaining immigration and crime and, specifically, he has addressed the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, for asking that the Open Arms sinks, the ship that performs humanitarian rescues in the Mediterranean. “What is this that you are going to Mass and then you say what you are going to sink the Open Arms? What will be the following, explode a plane in Barajas?” He has wondered.