The Popular Party already has a defined idea about the scandal that surrounds Cristóbal Montoro, Minister of Finance in the governments of Aznar and Rajoy. That is, how to try not to damage its credibility in criticism of corruption cases that affect the PSOE. The answer is to deny that the party has something to do with the author of all the budgets presented by the previous governments of the PP. As far as they are concerned, it is as if Montoro had been a socialist minister. It is little less than a joke that circulates on social networks, although some take it seriously.
They asked their parliamentary spokesman on Monday, Ester Muñoz, how all these revelations will affect the constant defense of the PP of the legacy of Rajoy's years in power. In the last congress that era was presented, together with that of Aznar, as the model that the party will execute when Moncloa returns. “Who must give explanations in judicial headquarters is Mr. Montoro,” Muñoz replied. Obviousness, because it is Montoro – together with almost all its former collaborators – who is charged. What the spokeswoman did not mention the name of Rajoy. He did not dare, although it may be that, to deny that Rajoy has some kind of political responsibility. It is a kind of savior wildcard that certainly does not apply to Pedro Sánchez.
Muñoz has earned the position for his aggressive style in the opposition to the Sánchez government. It is much easier to be incisive when attacking the adversary than when talking about their own shames.
He did admit the concern that the case has caused in the party. He combined it with a tear speech, according to which when this type of news appears, she thinks of “people who do not arrive at the end of the month”, in “the people who do not know if they are going to have a job” or, more daring, in which “we do not know if we will be able to collect a pension” (here is an excess of imagination above the level of information). Immediately, he showed what he was really thinking and went on to load against Patxi López.
In a tweet on Sunday, The PP taught doctrine To his followers. It was Sanchez who appointed Ábalos and Cerdán, while “Feijóo did not appoint Montoro.” It is true, it was Aznar and Rajoy who did, but not bother to ask for them in the PP. In an interview with Feijóo in the voice of Galicia published that day, they did it and the answer was to throw the other way. “That it is investigated Until the end, ”said Feijóo, although that does not depend on what he says.” I have not named anyone who is involved in an assumption of corruption. This is my presentation card, ”he continued. I was presuming to be less suspicious than his predecessors at the head of the party. Surely that does not tell them in the face.
Obviously, in the PSOE they don't talk about anything else. They are not to waste gifts. Montse Mínguez stressed that the Feijóo team follows the same “methodology” of favors to private companies as the previous leaders of the PP. He set his vote against the tax with which he taxed the extraordinary benefits of energy companies. On account of the legacy of Aznar and Rajoy, with Montoro of Minister, the socialist spokeswoman stressed that they are the referents of the current leader of the PP: “Who takes them to the stage (of the PP Congress) is Feijóo. And on top of that they gave us lessons of morality. He told us that they were his advisors and the best presidents. That photo is the image of corruption of 30 years.”
The Montoro case has managed to alter the Spanish political landscape before the general disconnection of August, but not to turn it completely. What will be seen in the coming months will be a duel between the PSOE and the PP in which each one will atize the other with a summary about corruption. The Socialists will exploit seven years of investigation of the Montoro case and those of the PP will do the same with the start of the investigation of the Abalos/Cerdán case.
There will also be unexpected moments, such as the one offered by Ester Muñoz at the press conference on Monday. Even if it is difficult to believe, the PP spokeswoman tried to use Feijóo's old friendship with Marcial Dorado, convicted of a drug trafficking case and known before for being one of Galicia's great smugglers. Known for everyone there, except for Feijóo.
Muñoz made him face and took advantage The interview with Dorado In the confidential to sustain a theory that does not cease to have its grace: “If something is clear is that it was more related to Marcial Dorado the PSOE than President Feijóo.” That is to put the bar very high, ignoring a friendship of several years between the two with the holidays enjoyed together and mostly paid by gold, who was someone with great access to cash.
The interview has a sharp holder: “The PSOE offered me money to release a bomb against Feijóo before the generals.” That phrase does not appear in literally, because it is a summary of several answers. “In addition, I had an offer, which was discussed of a bomb,” he says first. Then he says that it is “from the opposite party,” they ask if he comes from the PSOE, he says yes and later: “When they talked: 'This is going to explode, the other will explode …'. There were … there were a few words that there were … such … was nothing left.” As a spectacular complaint, it is not very precise, of course, not as much as the headline.
What is politically more relevant is to know to what extent the PP benefits to continue talking about Marcial Dorado. In principle, not too much. The accusation that Muñoz made that the PSOE used “even false information to attack political rivals” has no place in this case, because Dorado confirmed the existence of that friendship with Feijóo for years.
Anyway, if there are people like the director of the Salamanca Gazette who calls Montoro “Sanchist minister, embedded as a parasite in a PP government ”, we must agree that anything is possible. Until affirming that Marcial Dorado went on vacation to the snow with Pedro Sánchez.
