Rajoy’s conservative party, submerged in corruption in Spain – Management Journal

Two new scandals erupted after the legislative elections of December 20, when the PP came first but far from an absolute majority.

• – * The judicial circle is closing around the conservative Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy, immersed in a series of corruption scandals that makes it even more difficult to stay in power.

“in this country only thing that works is corruption,” says his son a former councilmen of the PP in Valencia in the east of the country, explaining that he was asked to transfer a thousand euros to the party were reimbursed him in cash, a system to launder illicit funds.

in addition, the statements had been recorded by the Civil Guard and included in a judicial investigation into an alleged trucaje plot of public contracts awarded in the Valencian town hall, bastion of the Spanish right for 24 years.

Some businesses paid kickbacks that would have served to finance the Popular Party in the region.

In the conversation suggests that bleaching responded to a request from the Secretary of the excaldesa of Valencia and PP senator Rita Barberá, emblematic figure of the Conservative Party.

Senator he said he had not committed any crime and claimed that these insinuations are “unfounded”.

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the case of Valencia came to light in late January two weeks before the PP headquarters in Madrid were recorded by the police and their regional president, Esperanza Aguirre, decided to resign following the complaint of several of its employees.

two new scandals erupted after the legislative elections on December 20, when the PP came first but far from an absolute majority.

on the other hand, half of these cases allowed embezzling at least 8,000 million euros of public money, say the authors.

“in Valencia and Madrid, are 20 years of absolute majorities” of the PP, which has generated “frames that believe they can count on certain impunity”, recently he explained to the AFP a lawmaker from the Popular Party who requested anonymity.

the Spanish law only penalizes illegal party funding since 2015.

voters they castigated conservatives in regional and municipal elections of 2015, in which they lost their power in five regions, led by Valencia.

But Rajoy, PP president for 11 years, refuses to take political reponsabilidad of corruption, simply acknowledging she could have fought her “most effective” way.

in this sense, the conservative leader maintained his candidacy to head the government and publicly, his troops support. Only the regional president of Murcia (southeast), Alberto Garre, dared to say publicly “everything happens for Mariano Rajoy step back, for Spain and the Popular Party itself”.