The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has assured that "it has already been discovered" that the former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been, at a minimum, "a smuggler" and has opined that, with his latest explanation about the origin of the jewels found in the safe of his office, "he is presenting himself as a crook and as a tax evader, probably to not acknowledge that the crimes committed that are behind those jewels are of an even greater severity."
At a political event held in Bilbao, alongside the president and the general secretary of the Basque PP, Javier de Andrés and Esther Martínez, Tellado referred to the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, after he compared the gift of the jewels that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claims to have received from the then King of Saudi Arabia with the delivery to a public official of a box of "typical products."
The popular leader pointed out that he was in Santander yesterday and was given a box of sobaos pasiegos, and he reproached that Torres considers that the fact that "you are gifted some miguelitos is like being gifted the jewels that Zapatero treasures."
Regarding the sobaos pasiegos, he indicated that what he will do is "share them with the colleagues, but of course they will not go to any safe and will not be hidden for 15 years as Zapatero has done with the jewels of discord." In his opinion, "one must see the smokescreens that the Socialist Party needs to hide its miseries, since it has been discovered that former president Zapatero has been, at a minimum, a smuggler."
Tellado has accused the government of Pedro Sánchez of having "eroded democratic institutions to try to put them at the service, not of the governing party, but of Pedro Sánchez's own interests."
According to what he has denounced, it is an Executive that "has sunk the purchasing power of Spaniards, that has destroyed the housing market in Spain and crushed the hopes of millions of young people in our country and that is no longer even capable of guaranteeing the protection of our borders and our territorial integrity, because it only occupies itself with protecting itself from the police and judicial investigations that corner them." "To protect itself by any means, alongside whoever, and doing whatever," he added.
In this line, he has recalled that, "soon, La Moncloa is going to sit in the dock" and that Begoña Gómez "will have to answer for the alleged embezzlement and the alleged influence peddling that she committed from that very place, from the offices of the Palacio de La Moncloa, the seat of the presidency of the government of Spain turned into the seat of the shady businesses of the wife of the president of the government."
Tellado has also accused Sánchez's Executive of "already pressuring the popular jury, and we have to see in what way, so that she is acquitted, because the PSOE has already issued a verdict, Sánchez's family is innocent, even if condemned by the courts, in a final sentence," referring to the president's brother. "Are judges not good enough for Sánchez? Are popular juries not good enough for Sánchez?" he has raised, questioning "what do we want a judicial power for if we already have the Socialist Party that can determine who is innocent and who is guilty."
After questioning the PSOE about whether it will respect the verdict of the popular jury and the judges and warning that the socialists "are capable of anything," he has censured that "those who came to regenerate democracy in Spain have ended up requesting the services of a clan of drug traffickers from Badajoz to scare the judge who was investigating the president's brother."
"The clan of Los Rochos has shown to have more dignity and more morality than gathering all the ministers of the government of Spain, because they rejected the commission from Leire Díez, Santos Cerdán, and Pedro Sánchez," he has pointed out, to maintain that "the clan is already the government of Spain, which has become an enemy government of Spanish democracy."
In his view, "that is the most dangerous clan at this moment in our country, Sánchez's clan, which is the same as saying Leire's clan, Koldo's clan, Ábalos' clan, Santos Cerdán's clan, and the clan of all those involved in the various corruption cases that are being clarified at this moment in our country."
"Intellectual father of sanchismo" and the jewels
In this context, he referred to the "intellectual father of sanchismo, the moral beacon of all of them, the jewel of the crown, Zapatero who, three months later, has broken his silence about the jewels he hid in his office." Tellado has indicated that "the judge had to tighten the screws on him to offer a new version now and say that they were a gift from Saudi Arabia from when he was president." "A gift that he did not declare, that he confiscated, that he took home and that he hides in an office that belongs to the Socialist Party," he criticized.
In Tellado's opinion, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero "is presenting himself as a crook and as a tax evader, probably to not acknowledge that the crimes committed behind those jewels are of even greater severity." "What must reality be like for the best version that Rodríguez Zapatero can offer three months later to be this?" he questioned.
According to what he added, "assuming the version that Rodríguez Zapatero offers today is valid, it remains to be explained whether they were a commission in exchange for something" and, in this sense, he asked Sánchez "why he continues to give him all his support to this day." "What does Sánchez owe Zapatero or what does Sánchez fear that Zapatero might reveal?" he raised, pointing out that it is "the part of the movie that is still missing to be discovered" and stating that "sooner rather than later, the whole truth will come to light."
Mention of Bolaños and Justice
Tellado also referred to the presence this Friday in Bilbao of the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, at the closing of the XVIII Congress of the Progressive Union of Justice Administration Lawyers (UPSJ), to emphasize that "he has a magnificent opportunity today to honor his position, at least once, to defend justice and to have a word of support for Judge Biedma, whom the socialist sewer pursued to try to ruin her life for investigating the scandal of Pedro Sánchez's brother."
For all this, Tellado concluded that "the stench of the Socialist Party's sewer is already unbearable," but insisted that "everything will be known and in the ballot boxes everything will be resolved," claiming that the PP, "as the first party in Spain, is here to give our country an honest, clean government that dedicates every day to solving people's problems and not to trying to cover up their shamelessness."