'Summer snake' is the term with which a recurring phenomenon is usually called in August: just when the present is scarce by the summer holidays, from the matches or some media attempts to raise any anecdote or triviality to the category of news or scandal. This year the PP already has its own and consists of trying to present as “one more piece of the 'Sanchista'” corruption network ”the acquisition by the Executive of a storage team of the Chinese Telecommunications Company Huawei.
Obviating the cases that have affected the governments of José María Aznar or Mariano Rajoy, the direction of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the PP's own leader have been calling the Executive for weeks as the “most corrupt” in history, mixing the accusations for alleged bites in exchange for public contracts against the former secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, or the former minister José Luis Open in the courts without concrete evidence against Pedro Sánchez's wife or against the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, to which the Supreme Court has placed on the edge of the bench due to the alleged filtration of the mail in which Isabel Díaz Ayuso's couple confessed its fiscal fraud.
Right after the scandal broke out on the former minister of the PP Cristóbal Montoro, charged with an alleged case of laws of laws in exchange for money, Genoa 13 has decided to try to emphasize the Government in a new case. This Wednesday, the general secretary of the PP spoke of “a new derivative” and even the “Chinese branch” of the executive's corruption, although for this he has used the relations of Spain with Huawei, a company with which the autonomic governments of the PP itself also have links, whose presidents have come to praise the company recently.
What the popular denounces is the existence of a contract of 12.3 million euros awarded by the Ministry of Interior to the Chinese multinational to acquire digital storage devices of telephone listeners ordered by judges and prosecutors. As Tellado said on Wednesday, the company is obliged by law to deliver to the Chinese government “everything you ask”, which, in his opinion, compromises national security, since according to the theory of the PP those telephone listeners could reach the executive of the Asian giant. “It is not an isolated episode, it is one more plot,” Tellado said.
Actually what the Government has done is to acquire storage teams from the Chinese company for several years, but, according to Interior “such acquisitions have never been carried out directly to Huawei, but to national and international companies that appear in the dynamic system, which are subject to national contracting regulations and have the accreditations required in the national security scheme issued by independent certification authorities”.
That is, the hiring of these storage systems does not entail any risk for the stored material because the supplier company – in this case, Huawei – is not the one that stores the information, but that it is guarded in the National Police Data Centers and Civil Guard.
Zapatero, “queen mother” of corruption
In spite of everything, the PP believes that it is a “murky” contract and this Wednesday Tellado included without evidence in the alleged plot to the former president of the government José Luis Rodriguez Zapater Alleged corruption.
His argument is that “Huawei hired the lobby of José Blanco, an accent, to carry their relations with power in Spain” and that the now secretary of telecommunications, Antonio Hernando worked, before reaching the Moncloa. “Hernando went from working for Huawei to the Sanchez cabinet that has given Huawei very suspicious millionaire contracts and his wife went from working to Huawei, through an accent, to be one of the substitutes for (saints) Cerdán in the direction of the PSOE,” Tellado said. Hernando has never worked for Huawei, but did it for an accent.
Another of tellado's arguments is that Blanco is “Zapatero's intimate and first mentor of Sanchez.” And Zapatero is “the parsley of all the sauces, the shadow behind each Sánchez's outrage to the rule of law and the public coffers, whether in Switzerland or in China. He is always shoemer,” he said. “There are no longer two secretaries of organization involved, but probably three,” he added. The PP has asked Hernando to appear in Congress, in addition to the Ministers of Defense, Foreign and Interior.
The inch with which the PP now refers to Huawei collides with the complacent attitude that the party has maintained with the Chinese company. Just a year ago, in August 2024, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, traveled to Beijing and visited the facilities of the Telecommunications giant. “It is a world reference of the 'Chinese brand' in the world,” he said there, that “contributes to Chinese leadership in telecommunications technologies and in the production of integrated circuits and electronic components.”
Huawei's investments praised by the PP
In 2022, President Murcia, López Miras, celebrated the investment of the Chinese telecommunications giant in Murcia to open an innovation laboratory, and announced it through a statement, after meeting with his CEO in Spain. And a year earlier, Ayuso opened a high performance center From Huawei itself to provide services and support to telecommunications companies from Madrid to Germany, the United Kingdom, France or Italy. “Projects like this suppose the creation of more than 200 high qualification jobs and an impulse to our region to which they place as a technological and digital referent of the continent,” she said.
But who has most fervently defended Huawei since the PP has been his spokesman in the European Parliament, Esteban González Pons. In an opinion article published in The confidential In 2020, Pons defended the presence of the Chinese company in the European Union and in Spain for being then the most advanced in 5G and artificial intelligence.
“In no case is the pressure that USA is exerting against the EU to vete, as Trump has done, the participation of Huawei in the development of the infrastructure of 5g. I have the suspicion that behind those threats there is not as much concern for security as fear of losing in favor of China and perhaps from Europe the competitive advantage that now shows their companies in the digital economy. To benefit the US.
“Today, without Huawei there is no 5G possible in Europe and I do not know if we must allow ourselves the delay that would entail such veto. We cannot stay out of the race just to benefit the US. We also aspire to lead artificial intelligence. We are not the digital colony of anyone,” González Pons added.
Five years later, his party uses that same company to try to manufacture out of nowhere a new alleged corrupt plot against the government, implying that the same Huawei praised by Ayuso, Moreno or Pons is a kind of Chinese espionage tool that the government wants to help through Zapatero, the former president to which the PP links with all the evils of the country and on the part of the foreigner.
August and the very hard accusations of the popular against the technology company and the Government will be replaced by new high words, in the strategy of noise and the “who can do” designed by José María Aznar to attack the progressive government by all fronts, even invented. The Huawei and the Government will be another summer snake than the PP used to fill owners during the cannula.
