Reuters, 17/04 16:53 CET
The Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, during his speech at the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies on the results of the last European Council. EFE / File
Madrid, April 17 ( EFE ) .- The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, enter this weekend squarely in the election campaign PP before the elections of May 24, and will participate in events on Saturday and Sunday Murcia Alicante.
Rajoy will be tomorrow in Murcia with the candidate for President of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sanchez and candidate for mayor, José Ballesta, and a day later accompany the candidates Alicante and Valencia.
In Murcia Rajoy also visit before political act, a center of the Foundation Down Syndrome.
The rally Murcia will be the first public event in which Rajoy intervene after the arrest of who was his partner in the government of Aznar, the former vice president of the executive, president of Bankia and former director of IMF , Rodrigo Rato.
It is hoped that in his speech Rajoy any reference, express or implied, to the situation of Rato.
Several popular leaders have expressed these days his surprise and disappointment at the arrest of Rato and the charges against him, including money laundering, although they have also insisted on emphasizing that the Treasury and justice are objectively acting and regardless of the political color of fraudsters, in this case a former Minister of PP.
“The law is equal for all,” he insisted to emphasize in this regard the Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro, who also explained that the Tax Agency takes “quite a while” investigating Rato
In addition, since the dome of the PP has launched another message. that of the current situation Rato has “nothing to do” with its management in government, as underlined by the Deputy Secretary of Studies and Programs, Esteban Gonzalez Pons.
Meanwhile, the opposition parties have criticized the government and the PP in this case have warned that the arrest and investigation of Rato not exonerating popular and have presented numerous initiatives to demand explanations, including the request for hearing of Rajoy himself appear in Parliament.
Tomorrow will see if Mariano Rajoy refers to what has been the news of the week and mentioned, albeit implicitly, the case of her former partner in the government and in the party and it was, like him, aspiring to succeed José María Aznar .
In any case, the Prime Minister begins his tour-campaign, in which, according to popular sources, will act all weekends from now until May 24, with a more intense participation during the campaign itself, in the two weeks prior to the appointment with the polls.
A date on which the PP territorial power plays and where Rajoy is confident that his party remains as first political force, as noted on several occasions.
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