PP launches investigation committee in Aragon over alleged "orgies" by Ábalos
The Aragonese PP demands clarification of alleged acts by former minister Ábalos in Zaragoza and Teruel. The PSOE announces it will support the committee to "demonstrate that there is nothing to hide".
Aragonese PP requests investigation committee over alleged "orgies" by Ábalos in Zaragoza and Teruel
The Popular Party has announced at the Cortes of Aragon the creation of an investigation committee to clarify alleged "orgies" held by former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos during official visits to Zaragoza and the Parador of Teruel, according to El Mundo.
Parliamentary spokesperson for the Aragonese PP, Ana Marín, presented the measure and pointed directly at the leader of the PSOE in the region, Pilar Alegría, whom she accuses of "covering up and concealing" what occurred when she served as Government Delegate. "She is neck-deep in mud and problems," Marín stated in the announcement.
The conservatives base their accusations on reports published by El Español, which place Alegría as an accomplice in the parties that Ábalos allegedly organised during the pandemic period. The PP hopes the committee will allow "those involved to clarify what happened, how it happened, who participated and how these orgies paid for with public money were concealed".
Alegría, faced with repeated accusations, had previously denounced the existence of an orchestrated campaign to "dehumanise and trample on her". "They throw a ball that they hope will get so big that it ends up crushing you. They will not succeed with me or with the project I represent. Never," she posted on social media.
Marín rejects that interpretation and believes that such statements only serve to confirm the facts alleged against her. The popular spokesperson recalls that Alegría denied the facts before a Senate investigation committee and even claimed she would resign if they were proven. "Alegría has now acknowledged, cornered by the evidence, what she has so often denied. She will not keep her word," Marín stated.
The PP also characterises Alegría's attitude as "shameful" and claims that "she uses her status as a woman to play the victim, to defend herself from the truth. It is an attitude sexist to the extreme," Marín added. Along with the investigation committee, the conservatives will put to a vote in the Cortes—where they have an absolute majority thanks to support from Vox—a proposition to condemn prostitution and to demand the opening of an investigation in both the Ministry of Transport and the Government Delegation in Aragon.
The socialist parliamentary group announced it will support the committee to "demonstrate that there is nothing to hide nor conceal", although in a statement it warned that "we deeply regret the tortuous and partisan use that Azcón's PP is making of Aragonese institutions". The socialists also warned that the initiative will not halt their work in opposition.
"Of all the ways of conducting and practising politics, the PP and Azcón always choose the worst. In this case, sentencing a woman and holding her responsible for the contemptible and sexist behaviour of a man. We are not the same," concludes the statement from the socialist group.
Source: El Mundo