The government does not clarify if Santos Cerdán has held some kind with José Luis Ábalos in the prison of Soto del Real since admission last June. Through an offensive in the Congress of Deputies, the Popular Party asked the Ministry of Interior, first, about the visits received by the star advisor from which he was Minister of Transportation, Koldo García Izaguirrethe time he was detained.
Specifically, the deputies Pedro Muñoz Abrines and Ana Belén Vázquez They required “copy of all reports and documents on the visits that Koldo García Izaguirre has received in the dungeon of three songs, in detail of the people who have visited it in these facilities.” The objective was to know if among those people were Ábalos. But there was a parliamentary response: “The Government has denied that former Development Minister José Luis Ábalos visit who was his advisor.”
From there, the popular deputies have followed the same strategy and have required the documentation of the last secretary of Organization of the PSOE, imprisoned since last July. The objective: know if you have received, among others, the visit of Ábalos. But Interior has refused to offer any data.
In his day, the popular group recalls in a letter registered in the lower house and to which the reason has had access, «Penitentiary institutions He stopped informing the UCO of the Civil Guard about the visits received by Santos Cerdán in their stay in the prison of Soto del Real ». The decision, the popular censor, “was taken despite the fact that the UCO had previously requested that it be informed in advance and discretion about these visits, considering them of interest to their investigations.”
For the PP, the list of people who have gone to meet with Cerdán is of great interest. As this newspaper published exclusively, one of the first to go to the penitentiary center was Jacobo Teijelo“The lawyer of the sewers of the PSOE”, who met with Leire Díez and then number three of the party in full reflection of Sánchez. Now, the popular sought to know “How many meetings” He has had with this lawyer, or if “he has received the visit of a member” of the current socialist dome, or the previous one, in the case of his predecessor to the organization. That is, Ábalos.
Criticism to interior
For Genoa, Secretism about Cerdán’s visits has a lot to do with a name that, in the past, participated in Sánchez’s second investiture: Ángel Luis OrtizSecretary General of Penitentiary Institutions. «It is the one who has to give the information of the visits and was key in the pact sealed between Cerdán and Antxon Alonso with Bildu for the investiture of Sánchez. Bildu supported her in exchange for a secret pact for which she got the approach of ETA prisoners to Basque prisons. Now, protect Cerdán and the government itself »popular sources censor.
The stay in prison in Cerdán has become a focus of controversy practically from the beginning. The failed strategy of the PP to require by the parliamentary route the registration of visits joins another offensive that this newspaper has already published. Through the Senate, the Popular Group launched a battery of questions written to the government to investigate the “benefits” enjoyed by the former Navarrese socialist leader.
As, for example, that you do not share a cell with any prisoner. Or the creation of a signature book in the prison modules to control the movements of officials and workers. An unprecedented measure that has no other purpose than to shield its privacy. Hence the popular interrogated the Executive for the “Normative amparo” of this controversial decision.
According to theorize in the PP, everything is due to a claim of the government to take a cape to the former secretary of organization so that I do not pull the blanket and discover what happened in the bowels of the PSOE. There is some expectation because justice ends up giving the existence of a “box B” in Ferraz.
The refusal to inform your visits, the cell only for him, the book of signatures for tranquility of his privacy. “An unprecedented situation in democracy”as is the judicial siege of the Government, sources of the dome argue, “it is leading to exceptional situations in the treatment you receive” Cerdán in jail.