The general secretary of the PSOE in Aragon, Pilar Alegría, has spoken about the indictment of former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the 'Plus Ultra case', in which alleged crimes of money laundering and influence peddling are being investigated. Faced with this situation, she has appealed to the "presumption of innocence" and "respect for Justice".
Alegría stated the following: "When this type of information becomes known, I also learned about it this morning, as I believe the rest of the citizens did, we must convey, of course, respect for Justice. I believe this must be the most important and fundamental thing, and logically, tranquility, serenity, and, as I say, respect for Justice".
She continued by saying that "there are those who forget that in a State of Law, in democracy, there is something called the presumption of innocence. It is true that for the Popular Party, this figure is surely only respected or only brought out, let's say, for a walk when it corresponds to the initials M. Rajoy or similar, but in a State of Law, the presumption of innocence exists".
The also spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cortes of Aragon underlined, in statements made to the media in Barbastro, that "it is important to remember that this investigation starts from a pseudo-union, to call it something like Manos Limpias and others similar".
Pilar Alegría argued that "when it was necessary to rescue or make funds available to different airlines during the pandemic, both Plus Ultra, Air Europa, and Volotea, these were funds that were made available to rescue, in this case, airlines, to save many thousands of jobs", and recalled that "those loans that were launched passed the validation, among other things, of the European Commission and the Court of Auditors".