The PP and Vox have included the president of the Government, Pedro Sanchezand his wife, Begoña Gómez, on their lists of potential appearances in the investigation commission promoted by Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the Madrid Assembly to clarify the assumption “favor treatment” received by the wife of the leader of the PSOE at the Complutense University. The decision was announced just one day after The Madrid baroness will refuse to attend to the call of the head of the executive for both to meet this Friday in La Moncloa, and once again places the Madrid president one step ahead of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has not summoned the president to the commission of the Koldo case of the Senate, after threatening to do so. However, if his appearance is finally activated, Sánchez would not be obliged to attend the Assembly, and would foreseeably avoid entering a conclave designed to wear him and his government down.
“We have included Pedro Sánchez on the list because everything seems to indicate that the extraordinary professorship that his wife directed (at the Complutense) was born at the table in the president of the government’s office,” said Carlos Díaz-Pache, spokesperson in the Assembly of the Regional PP, which will now have to decide whether to activate the appearance of the chief executive, or not.
Gomez, who has been summoned to testify by the justice system as being investigated for the alleged commission of the crimes of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling, he must attend the appointment at the commission, expected to be scheduled for November 13, as the rector of Joaquín Goyache. However, nothing forces her to declare in it. That is what, for example, former regional president Cristina Cifuentes did in the investigative commission of the master casewhich he went through in 2019 without answering any ask.
On the UCM website, Sánchez’s wife appeared last year as co-director of a Master of Lifelong Training in Public and Private Fundraising Management in Non-Profit Organizations and of a Master in Competitive Social Transformation. In the latter it also appeared as chair director. The popular ones are especially interested in putting Gómez’s relationship with the rector Joaquín Goyache, whom they have also summoned to the commission, under the spotlight, and in having him explain the decision adopted during his mandate to promote this second title, what criteria was applied for Gómez to direct its chair, and the relationship with the companies that finance them.
In the case of Sánchez, it is highly unlikely that the president and his subordinates of the central Executive will attend the Assembly in the event that their appearance is activated. On previous occasions, representatives of the state administration have declined the call arguing that they must be accountable to the Congress and the Senate, but not to regional parliaments.
“We are not going to hesitate to investigate all the corruption surrounding the PSOE,” wrote the new spokesperson for Vox in the Assembly, Isabel Pérez, on the social network X (formerly Twitter). “And Sánchez is The 1 of this plot”, he has accused to justify his call. “The mafia boss.”
For its part, Juan Lobato’s PSOE has registered fifteen possible appearances, among whom are Díaz Ayuso; his chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, known as MAR; or the former Minister of Education and president of the Assembly, Enrique Ossorio. Since the PP has an absolute majority in the Chamber, it seems difficult for any of these appearances to materialize.
Thus, Marta Bernardo, from the PSOE, has defended that “Ayuso’s obsession is Pedro Sánchez.” “This is why we have recorded the appearances (of Ayuso or MAR) so that citizens can clearly see that there has never been a case, and that Mrs. Gómez has nothing to do with practices that the PP certainly does in Madrid,” he said. followed, in a veiled reference to master casewhich affected former president Cristina Cifuentes, or the controversy that surrounded the former national leader of the conservatives, Pablo Casado, who he passed half of his law degree in four months in a private center attached to the Complutense.
Everything, in any case, remains in the hands of Ayuso’s PP, which is the one who has an absolute majority in the regional Assembly and who, therefore, has the option of stopping or activating initiatives in the Table, and who will have the part of the lion in a commission of inquiry designed to wear down the central executive.
Thus, on Monday, during an “angry” meeting, in the words of a source present at the meeting, the PP imposed the application of the D’Hont law to the quotas available to each party to select those appearing on the commission. In this way, if there were only four sessions, as initially planned, the PP would call seven attendees, two from Más Madrid, two from the PSOE and one from Vox. And if it were extended to six sessions, as is possible, the conservatives could call 10 attendees, four from Más Madrid, three from the PSOE and one from Vox. However, if the usual methodology is applied, each group would have four and six appearances, respectively, one per session, which has caused a block protest from the opposition, and the socialists are considering going to court, including the Constitutional Court. .
The consequence is that the dozens of names registered by each party are a toast to the sun. The PP will decide who and when of an investigation that will start in November, and may end before the end of the year, or last until February 2025.
