Illa’s first chief of staff in Health testifies today in the Senate commission on the “Koldo case”
The Senate investigative commission into the ramifications of the ‘Koldo case’ It is reactivated this Friday after a few weeks of hiatus with the appearance of the former chief of staff of Health Minister Salvador Illa during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Germán Rodríguez, who is currently director of cabinet of Minister Jordi Hereu.
This is the first appearance in this Senate committee after the last electoral processes, since the PP has decided to slow down of these appearances after the last elections and they do not plan to call anyone in the months of July and August. German Rodriguez, who was Salvador Illa’s chief of staff in the Ministry of Health during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, will testify before the Senate investigation commission this Friday at 11:30 a.m.
Already the other week, on Wednesday, June 26, the former director of the Canarian Health Service Conrado Domínguez, who is being investigated by the ‘mask case’, and the former Canarian Minister of Health during the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres, Teresa Cruz. And on Thursday the 27th it will be the turn of the current Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, who during the pandemic was an advisor in the Government of Navarra of the socialist María Chivite.
AND NOW UNTIL SEPTEMBER
For now, the PP is not planning to summon the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to the Senate investigation commission into the ramifications of the ‘Koldo case’ and has decided slow down the pace of the appearances in this forum once the different electoral processes have passed.
After these four appearances, the ‘popular’ predict a rest of this investigation commission during the summer, ruling out enabling the months of July and August to hold a session.
In the week before the European elections of June 9, The PP decided to call the president of Congress to appear and former Balearic president, Francina Armengol, who was the last person to appear for this investigation commission.
And after having threatened on several occasions by citing Sánchez before the European elections, the ‘popular’ for now do not intend to call him to testify, although they warn that they manage the times in this Chamber by having an absolute majority and the Commission’s Board could meet urgently whenever.
THEY EXPANDED THE COMMISSION TO INCLUDE SÁNCHEZ
At first, the PP created the investigative commission in the Senate on the ‘Koldo case’, although after the wake-up call of the lawyers for trying to include matters such as that of the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, or the ‘Delcy case’, they expanded this object of the commission to safeguard themselves.
In this way, upon understanding that Sánchez did not give the appropriate explanations about the his wife’s business During an appearance in the Congress of Deputies, the PP decided to include the head of the Executive among the list of appearances of this commission.
However, it is the Commission’s Board, in which the PP has a majority, that is in charge of setting the date of those appearing and for now it is not He is expected to call Sánchez until after the summer.
17 APPEARANTS HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE COMMISSION
After more than 15 sessions, The investigation commission does not have any scheduled appearances at the moment, although the Board is scheduled to meet in the coming days to establish new dates for about three or four people.
The person in charge of opening the round of appearances of this investigation commission was Koldo García Izaguirre, former advisor to José Luis Ábalos, who gives the name to the object of the commission, who availed himself of his right not to testify when being investigated for this plot.
And after him the former chief of staff of Salvador Illa Victor Francos; the former Minister of Health Salvador Illa himself; the also former Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos; exalted officials of Health, Transport and Interior; the president of the Court of Accounts and the ‘number three’ of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán.
