The PSOE does not see “any path” in the PP's complaint to Sánchez for conflict of interest
The complaint that the PP announced that it was going to present against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, before the Office of Conflicts of Interest has no legal meaning, as sources from the PSOE warned this Thursday, indicating that the PP knows it, but uses public institutions to intoxicate.
The PP indicated on Wednesday that it would report Sánchez to the Office of Conflicts of Interest for the alleged links of his wife, Begoña Gómez, with some investigated by the Koldo case and with those responsible for the airline Air Europa, before it was rescued during the pandemic with public money. According to the PP, Sánchez should have abstained from the Councils of Ministers in which the aid was approved.
The PSOE has indicated that legally there is no such complaint because the rule governing the Office of Conflicts of Interest is absolutely clear and only requires abstaining in the event that a family member is a director or advises the company on which is decided, which did not happen at all in this case. Therefore, he understands that the PP's complaint only aims to try to confuse citizens. In fact, the PSOE points out, there was already a similar complaint from a citizen and the Conflict of Interest Office did not admit it.
The PP, then, according to the socialists, is going to make a “spurious instrumentalization” of a public institution, something that, if it occurred in a judicial body, could lead to it being sentenced to pay costs for bad faith. This is not the case of the Conflict of Interest Office, which is an administrative body dependent on the Secretary of State for Public Administration. (EFE)