The PP's deputy secretary for Institutional Regeneration, Cuca Gamarra, has chosen not to provide any clarifications about the meeting that, according to various reports, the party's lawyer would have held with former ministerial adviser Koldo García.
"Look, so it's clear. What he was asked for were 30 years in prison. So it's clear, 30 years in prison at trial, 19 years in prison is the sentence," she stated this Wednesday, before speaking at an event in Palma, when she was asked about the existence of that meeting and whether the PP had raised any kind of offer.
In recent days, the head of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, along with other leaders of the party, has rejected that the party offered money to former ministerial adviser Koldo García, who, according to the information that has been published, claims that he would have reached a deal with the PP lawyer, up to now, to pay his defenses and a million euros in exchange for data to "overthrow" Pedro Sánchez.
Gamarra stresses that the PP wants him to respond before the courts
Gamarra has emphasized that the adviser "still has pending cases" and that her party "continues to press for him to have to answer to justice for all the crimes that were committed". "That is the most important thing and above all what is there," she concluded.
When journalists insisted that she specify whether the meeting between the PP lawyer and Koldo García had taken place, the 'popular' leader stepped away from the microphones to hand over the floor to the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens. "Thank you very much," she replied briefly.
Days earlier, the PP's own deputy secretary for Institutional Regeneration had acknowledged that a meeting did take place, although she denied that any payment was put on the table.
These statements by Gamarra come, in addition, two days after the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, stated that there is sufficient evidence for Justice to investigate the alleged meeting and reiterated his request for explanations from the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Sémper insists that there was no financial offer to Koldo García
For his part, Borja Sémper has reiterated that the PP did not offer money to Koldo García and has explained that in a judicial proceeding there are "dynamics" of meetings and contacts between lawyers. "What I can assure you is that the PP has not offered or allowed anyone to offer money to anyone in any judicial proceeding," he said at an event held in Madrid organized by 'Artículo 14'.
In this context, he has emphasized that the Partido Popular requested for Koldo García a sentence of 30 years in prison and that the courts "imposed on him a sentence of nothing more and nothing less than 19 years."
"What the PP has asked for is a custodial sentence among the largest that can be requested in a proceeding of those characteristics," he stressed, adding that Feijóo "would never have allowed that to happen" because "he is an honorable, honest man and wants things to work as they should work."
Asked about the possibility that, in the midst of the campaign, some recording or unexpected revelation might appear, Sémper has assured that he has no knowledge of it and has denounced that people live in "a continuous state of alarm in Spain." In his view, "anything is possible" if "Pedro Sánchez or the PSOE is involved." "That is another of the things that has to be changed. We are in a permanent political alarm, but not one caused by the Partido Popular," he added.
At this point, he indicated that what is being analyzed is that "there was a dirty scheme created in Ferraz with the aim of eliminating or harassing a magistrate who is investigating the family circle of the Prime Minister," in reference to the judge Beatriz Biedma.