Madrid (EFE) addressed in already existing congressional committees, such as the Interior Committee.
The socialist spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, has reported this Tuesday that the Board of Spokespersons has refused to create both the investigation commission registered by the PP on the Mediator case and the one requested by EH Bildu on the events of March 3 of 1976 in Vitoria.
And it has confirmed the alternative agreed with Unidas Podemos, ERC and Bildu, since they consider that in both cases it is “much more agile and effective” to use already existing commissions, such as the Interior and Democratic Quality, so that they appear in them ” immediately” the Minister of the Interior, the director of the Civil Guard and “all those who have something to contribute to the truth.”
A possible appearance of Fuentes Curbelo
“It is increasingly evident that what some incited as the Mediator case to attack the PSOE has become more of a barracks case and this points in another direction,” he explained, referring to the Civil Guard.
Asked specifically about the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, investigated in the Medidor case, he said that he could appear before the Democratic Quality Commission, although he would not have the obligation to attend.
Sources from United We Can have commented that they would like Fuentes Curbelo to appear in Congress before the regional and municipal elections in May, while in Operation Catalonia they will ask the former PP leader Pablo Casado to attend.
The agreement reached between the PSOE and its partners also contemplates the promotion of the investigation commission on Operation Catalonia, although the Socialists propose to address it in a broader commission that also includes the news of the Kitchen case.
The socialist spokesman has denied that the pact includes the creation of a specific investigation commission on the Civil Guard and the awarding of works in barracks, as ERC had previously announced when speaking of the “corruptions” that affect the force, although this will be addressed case in existing commissions.
The arguments of the parliamentary partners of the Government
For their part, the spokespersons for ERC and EH Bildu have explained that they have decided to promote an alternative to the PP investigation commission on the Mediator case because they “creaked” that the popular ones presented themselves as “champion of corruption.”
The PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, has said that he has voted against this commission because he does not consider it to be an “effective” instrument in judicial cases, and has disassociated himself from the agreed alternative, although he will ask the Minister of the Interior for explanations about the barracks case.
And although some parliamentary partners did not view the creation of a specific commission of investigation on the Mediator case with a bad eye and were even willing to support the PP initiative, this Tuesday they have leaned towards supporting the alternative.
The spokesperson for Compromís, Joan Baldoví, has acknowledged that he prefers a proposal from “progressive parties” over that of the PP, and the leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, also supports Congress carrying out a “broader” investigation focused on politicians and “other estates”.
For the PP spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, this support is a demonstration that the government’s parliamentary partners have agreed to “save the PSOE from any investigation”, given that “with some excuse or another” the truth is that the investigation commission that proposed by the popular has not gone ahead.