The Popular Party has decided to urgently summon, next Thursday, the 11th at 10:00 a.m., the Director General of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, to appear before the Senate’s Interior Committee. The populares have taken this step “given the extreme gravity” of the facts investigated by the UCO and included in the summary of the Leire case, facts that would personally link González with Leire Díez, popularly known as the PSOE’s plumber, and as a result of which an operation would have been activated to try to short-circuit the investigations that the UCO was precisely carrying out on the corruption cases affecting the Socialist Party and the family circle of the President of the Government.
The populares maintain that from Ferraz, the federal headquarters of the PSOE leadership, and Moncloa, the seat of the government presidency, “a state crime was organized to try to extort those investigating the corruption of Sanchismo” and, they add, that “its executive arm,” a category they attribute to Leire Díez, “held meetings with the Director General of the Civil Guard.” For the PP, this reveals that the socialist plot to “protect” Sánchez managed to extend its tentacles to key institutions.
The main opposition party considers the situation “unsustainable” and, in this regard, sources from the party in the Senate maintain that Mercedes González should attend next week’s meeting of the Interior Committee “not as Director General” of the armed institute because by then she should have already resigned. “She should not remain in her position for one second longer.”
The populares, in any case, are not only not satisfied with the explanations provided through a nocturnal statement by the Civil Guard’s leadership, acknowledging at least two personal meetings between González and Díez, but they also believe that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, lied when a week ago he emphatically assured that the Director General had never held any meeting with the plumber.
That is why they insist that “given the different versions given by the Government and the Director of the Civil Guard herself, it is essential that she be held accountable before the Cortes.”
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The Popular Party believes that the information emerging from the various judicial cases surrounding the socialists is of such gravity that it could only begin to be cleared up with the calling of general elections. For the PP’s Secretary General, Miguel Tellado, “everyone should leave the Government and La Moncloa with their hands up.”
In his opinion, “a Director General against the Civil Guard cannot be in charge of the Civil Guard.” Tellado maintains that “whoever is willing to give everything for the mafia cannot represent or lead those who risk everything for the homeland.” And he adds: “Minister Marlaska, who lied to protect the director, cannot remain in his position either.”
For the populares, the summary of the Leire case is “a ticking time bomb” because it uncovers “how the socialist sewer operated.” “The PSOE,” its Secretary General states, “tried to silence and ruin the lives of those investigating its corruption, by judicial mandate.”
