“I am considering resigning from my party, not because the PP asks me to. I am not accused of anything”

The former Spanish Minister of Development, former secretary of the organization of the PSOE and current socialist deputy, José Luis Ábalos, has stated that he is “always at the disposal of the party”, thus his possible resignation over the ‘Koldo case ‘ has been determined by the organization: “I will consider resigning from my party, not because the PP asks me to. I am not accused of anything.” He stated this in an interview The countrywhere he emphasized that his “accusations are political and media, not judicial“, following the arrest of his advisor Koldo García Izaguirre over a case of alleged illegal commissions in mask purchase contracts during the pandemic, when Ábalos was in the Council of Ministers.

This interview is published a day after the First Vice President of the Spanish Government, Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, Mary Jesus Montero, hinted this Friday to say explicitly whether Ábalos should resign her seat in the Congress of Deputies due to the investigation into her former advisor, although Montero emphasized that she knows what she would do if she were in Ábalos’ place, with reference towards a possible dismissal. “For me, things are clear. I am always available to my party. I have always defended my party, I have been loyal. But I’m not involved in this case. We’ll see how this turns out. They are asking me to resign because of something I am not involved in.. “I will think about it with my party, I am not going to make a decision alone,” Ábalos said.

And whether you have spoken to the president of the government, Pedro Sanchezhas answered that no, that he will not care, and has added that he knows what he thinks, what he expects and that Sánchez, for his part, “knows” that he is loyal.