The PSOE's Organization Secretary, Rebeca Torró, defended this Thursday that the so-called 'plumber' of Ferraz, former militant Leire Díez, "went unnoticed" within the party and pointed to the former Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán as the person who must clarify what relationship she had with her. These statements were made in an interview on RNE, reported by Europa Press.
When questioned about the trips that the PSOE paid for Leire Díez, the nine trips that appear in the UCO reports, the socialist leader explained that now everyone knows who Leire Díez is, but that at the time she "went unnoticed" in the organization and on occasions when she may have coincided with Santos Cerdán and some members of the Executive that depended on the former Organization Secretary.
In this regard, she stressed that Leire Díez was a "militant" about whom Santos Cerdán "will know" and "will have to explain that relationship he had with her directly." "Now we all know her, of course, but not before," she remarked.
Torró added that she meets with "many" socialist militants and that this does not imply knowing them all in depth. Although she specified that she is not the one who pays for the militants' trips, she acknowledged that the party structure "must provide support" to both affiliates and those who collaborate with them. "That is not illegal, far from it," she emphasized.
"Meeting with a person or appearing on an agenda is not a crime"
The head of Organization also did not want to comment on Leire Díez's meetings with the State Attorney General's Office or with the Director of the Civil Guard, nor did she comment on whether it is usual for a militant to have appointments with these high-ranking officials, but she defended that the mere fact of meeting with someone does not constitute a crime.
"As far as I know today, meeting with anyone, sending a message, or appearing on an agenda is not a crime," she reiterated, while considering it unfair that, at this moment, the mere fact of knowing someone or having a meeting arouses "suspicions" about those people.
Likewise, she reiterated that the PSOE will await the evolution of the case against the former militant to verify if the "indications materialize" before deciding whether to file a lawsuit against her.
"What we have been able to see of this case is that everything that this alleged plot wanted to achieve, it has obtained absolutely nothing," he argued, underlining that this "also verifies the zero influence that these people had."
In this context, he insisted that he has no idea what Leire Díez could or could not contribute and urged the members of the alleged plot to explain their behaviors and the actions they have carried out.
In fact, Rebeca Torró maintains that this task does not correspond to the PSOE: "It is not up to the Socialist Party because it has nothing to do with the Socialist Party, they are the ones who have to explain it, therefore, no fear whatsoever in this regard."