PP and Vox promote a parliamentary investigation commission in the Balearic Islands on the payment of Armengol

PP and Vox will promote an investigation commission in the Balearic Parliament on the use of 3.7 million public euros by the Government chaired by the socialist Francina Armengol to pay for masks to the allegedly corrupt plot investigated by the National Court and linked to the Ministry led by the socialist Jos Luis Balos.

The PP announced this Tuesday that it will adhere to the proposal of the party of Santiago Abascal and both groups will assert their parliamentary majority tomorrow to move forward with the commission on the Balearic branch of the known as the Koldo case, in reference to Koldo García, the balos advisor detained three weeks ago.

The spokesperson of the popular in the autonomous legislative chamber, Sebasti Sagrerashas announced the support of his group to investigate everything surrounding that payment forged between April and May 2020, when the PSOE governed in the Balearic Islands with the support of the nationalists of Ms and Unidas Podemos.

“There are too many contradictions, many unanswered questions and they need to be given, there have to be political answers,” said Sagreras, whose party will work in the coming weeks to set a calendar of appearances.

“Us disturb “the lies, the silences and the lack of answers to very important questions” about that file, he added in reference to the omissions of Armengol herself, who appeared last week to deny any participation in a corruption plot and declare to her government if perhaps as a victim, but he did not clarify two of the main unknowns that continue to weigh on the matter.

On the one hand, through whom did the investigated company – Soluciones de Gestin y Apoyo a Empresas SL – land in the Balearic Islands, a question about which he limited himself to saying that names of companies reached them through many means, “ministries, companies, institutions , city councils” and that it was the technicians who valued them.

On the other hand, why did the government she presided over take almost three years to demand payment for a shipment of masks that had turned out to be of low quality and that had never been able to be used as medical supplies, which is what they were purchased for.

The actual president of Congresswho appeared in the Chamber to defend his management, argued that it is as valid to claim the money in the first minute as in the last.

Vox spokesperson in the Balearic Islands, Idoia Ribasfrom whose group the initiative to open a parliamentary investigation commission comes, has expressed the will of his party to investigate the entire file, from its beginning to its end, and thus expose “all the facts” to public light to that “can be judged.”

The PSOE does not clarify it

The PSOE has not specified whether or not to support the investigation commission. His spokesperson in the regional Parliament, Iago Negueruela, has responded today to these questions, attacking the PP and projecting onto the current government the doubt of whether or not the claim file is still alive. “We don’t know what the file is like, whether it has expired or not,” the socialist politician, who was an advisor and spokesperson during the previous Armengol government, has said repeatedly.

Although he has not verbalized it, Negueruela has implied that his party will not support the PP and Vox proposal for an investigative commission, hiding behind the fact that his group, and he specifically, “has given all the explanations.”

Other parties

The Más per Mallorca party, for its part, has announced that it will vote against the investigative commission requested by Vox in relation to the Koldo case, considering that “it is not honest.”

As the spokesman for the nationalists pointed out this Monday, Llus Apesteguiathe commission, which will be debated and voted on this Tuesday in plenary, “comes from a party that is trying to eliminate the Anti-Corruption Office” and that “is not interested in investigating corruption.”

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