The spokesperson for the Popular Parliamentary Group in the Cortes of Castile and León, Leticia García, raised this Thursday in the Plenary whether, as a result of the investigation announced by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office into alleged fraud involving community funds earmarked for anti-abuse bracelets in Spain, it will be necessary to "cross out" the name of the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, from the PSOE ticket for the Congress for Valladolid.
García made these statements during her intervention in the turn against the entirety amendment presented by the Socialist Parliamentary Group to the draft budget for the Junta for 2027. In that context, she referred to the investigation known about this same Thursday into the management of Ana Redondo, as well as the one already opened in relation to the use of European funds for rail safety that affects the former minister Óscar Puente, who renounced heading the list to the Congress for Valladolid after his resignation, which placed Redondo as the leading candidate.
In her criticism, the PP spokesperson highlighted the situation of both Socialist leaders in the region. "What a disgrace to have two ministers in Castile and León with this seriousness; I don’t know what the Electoral Commission will do, if it has to cross out now the number 2 on the Valladolid ticket, two crossed-out ministers," she said to the plenary hall.
After this reflection, the 'popular' leader cast doubt on the credibility of the Socialist project and on its criticisms of the regional accounts. "What value can those arguments have from a party that has been ruling without government for eight years in Spain, that has had an entire legislature without presenting an expenditure ceiling, budgets that it has had since 2022 without talking about budgets and now already, with that suspicion about European funds," she concluded in her intervention in the Plenary of the Cortes.