The expulsion file of the PSOE against the former Secretary of Organization José Luis Ábalos continues its course after he transferred the necessary documentation for his defense to the party leadership. However, Ferraz considers that it has remained outdated and expired After the latest report of the UCO of the Civil Guard, which gives him a key role in the alleged corrupt plot and leaves him on the brink of indictment.
The internal process against Ábalos began in February, a few days after the arrest of his advisor at the Ministry of Transportation. Koldo Garcia. At that moment the PSOE demanded that will deliver his deputy certificate and when he refused, he expelled him from the Socialist Parliamentary Group and opened a file of precautionary suspension of militancy.
The file continued its course for several months and was reactivated in September after the summer break, after Ábalos himself demanded that Ferraz readmit him and close his casewhich he considered “expired”, since several months had passed “paralyzed”, without carrying out new procedures, as he protested. From that moment on, the matter came to life again and the PSOE leadership responded to its former leader, setting a period of five days for him to send all documentation relevant to his defense.
Ábalos responded within the deadline, specifically October 7, alleging that I had not committed any fault included in the statutes and regulations of the party and demanding again that his expulsion file be archived and all his rights as a member be returned to him.
In his letter, addressed to the Organization Secretariat of Santos Cerdán, he alleged that deadline was not respected that they gave him to deliver his minutes and rejected the charges attributed to him, such as acting against an agreement agreed upon by the party organs or leaving office without prior authorization.
UCO and anti-corruption report
However, just a few days later, on Thursday, October 10, a UCO report was made public that left the former minister on the brink of judicial indictment, attributing to him a “relevant role and responsibility” in the so-called ‘Koldo plot’.
The researchers of the Civil Guard They emphasized his relationship with Koldo García and with Víctor de Aldama, the alleged commission agent who is currently in preventive detention for another case related to hydrocarbons and pointed out that should be investigated the former minister’s relationship with the “criminal organization.” In addition, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office was also in favor of investigating him, pointing out that “it is difficult to understand the operation” carried out by Koldo García and Aldama. “without the participation” of Ábalos.
Your arguments have “expired”
The situation in Ábalos, therefore, has become complicated in the last week, even more so when the PSOE has already confirmed that will support the request when it reaches Congress and will allow it to be investigated by the Supreme Court.
According to socialist sources, the two processes, the judicial and the organic, can continue in parallel and they reject that the first can cause the second to be paralyzed. However, they emphasize that the arguments given by Ábalos and the documents sent to support his defense have been “outdated” and surpassed by the new allegations.
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