The PSOE has shown its discomfort due to the temporal coincidence between the decision of judge Juan Carlos Peinado to prosecute Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, for several crimes related to corruption, and the statement of the head of the police investigation of "Operation Kitchen", who has confirmed that the plot alluded to Mariano Rajoy with the nickname of "The Asturian".
"We cannot help but express our surprise at the coincidence that the order to prosecute Begoña Gómez is made public on the same day that the main investigator of the Kitchen case has identified Mariano Rajoy with some of the nicknames used by those involved in the plot," sources from the socialist formation have conveyed to Europa Press.
The consulted sources speak out thus after it became known that the magistrate investigating the "Begoña Gómez case" has decided to prosecute Pedro Sánchez's wife for alleged crimes of influence peddling, business corruption, embezzlement, and misappropriation, discarding however the crime of professional intrusion.
The order has been made public a few hours after the head of the police investigation of "Operation Kitchen" ratified this Monday before the National Court (AN) that the alleged plot referred to former president Mariano Rajoy as "The Asturian" or "The Beards".
Given this situation, the PSOE maintains that, after said identification, the former head of the Executive "is once again against the ropes": "Once again, past, present, and future of the Popular Party. Perhaps now it is better understood why Moreno Bonilla has decided to do without Rajoy and even Aznar in the Andalusian campaign".
"With that of "whoever can do, let them do" stained by the war and with a Rajoy facing the Kitchen trial, in the PP's oven there's no room for another bun. And Feijóo, meanwhile, neither condemns nor demands accountability. Lessons, therefore, none", they have snapped.
"The truth will end up prevailing", defends the PSOE
In view of the order issued by Peinado, the party insists that the investigation against Gómez is "erratic", "prospective" and "at least surprising", underlining that it has been "corrected by the Provincial Court of Madrid on at least 13 occasions" and that "searches, witness summonses and other proceedings have been annulled due to lack of evidence and motivation".
From the party they criticize the "animosity" with which, in their understanding, action has been taken against Sánchez's wife and the "passivity" with which Alberto González Amador, partner of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is being investigated, from whom they "still" demand an asset report.
"We must not forget that this case began as a result of a complaint by the far-right organization Manos Limpias, based on hoaxes and fake news," they recalled, arguing that "it lacks any basis and responds to a strategy of the right and the far-right and their political and media terminals."
According to the PSOE, said strategy "is none other than the harassment and demolition against the Prime Minister using everything within their reach, including his family". From Moncloa, they add, Peinado's resolution has been received with "indignation", also for being made public while the head of the Executive and his wife are on an official trip to China.
In this context, the socialists warn that "not everything goes in politics" and maintain that "the right and the far-right have crossed a line never before crossed in Spanish democracy." "We can state emphatically that the professional activity of the wife of the Prime Minister is irreproachable. We are convinced that the truth will end up prevailing," they have stated.