Montoro will appear on September 2 in Congress to … – RTVE

Montoro will appear on September 2 in Congress to … – RTVE

RTVE.es / EFE

Minister of Finance, Christopher Montoro will appear on September 2 in the House of Representatives to explain whether the ex-president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol to the tax amnesty availed.

The Secretary of State for Parliamentary Relations, José Luis Ayllon, announced this date after speaking with the minister, whose appearance is discussed Tuesday at the Permanent Committee of Congress.

PP spokesman in the Congress, Alfonso Alonso, has clarified that the minister will attend the Congress at the request of the popular group to take stock of the fight against tax and no fraud on Pujol particular case, although intended to be treated this matter as will be discussed “other situations. ” And the PSOE had also requested the attendance of Montoro to treat Pujol case.

The will of the PP, said Alonso, is that Montoro realize “anything that might explain Under the law “ and was convinced that the minister will try to answer the” concerns “of the parliamentary groups.

And in this sense has admitted that there are” concerns “over Pujol in view of the groups have taken to the Permanent Council held on Tuesday.

If ICV Deputy Joan Coscubiela noted for his part that the appearance of Montoro has serve to deepen the “once for all” on the impact of tax evasion in Spain , as the case Pujol has said, confirms that “the economic and political elites” of Spain were “conniving, if not costars and accomplices “of tax evasion.

Coscubiela recalled that his party denounced at the time the evidence of” arbitrary use of power “and rejected that attempt to” socialize responsibility “because” not everyone was silent in Catalonia. “

Meanwhile, Alfred Bosch, ERC, said that all cases of corruption come from the” economic oligarchy and political Spain “ and his party supports the request for hearing from Montoro because “many years, decades ago”, ask for “clean politics in Catalonia.”

The PNV also supports the minister explain this case in Congress, although in the words of his deputy Peter Azpiazu “major appearance” should be that of Jordi Pujol himself in the Catalan Parlament .