The PP and the PSIB accuse each other of corruption: "The only lesson they can give us is how to plunder"

PalmThe corruption case affecting former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has marked this Tuesday's plenary session of Parliament. After Alberto Núñez Feijóo's recent visit to Palma, who assured that "PSOE corruption is worse than the mafia", the Popular Party have rubbed salt in the wound in the session of control to the Government, while the deputy spokesperson of the PSIB, Marc Pons, has delved into the judicial cases open within the ranks of the regional PP.

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The vice-president, in turn, responded with irony, referring to the corruption cases affecting the Spanish government and, specifically, officials from the inner circle of the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez. "It is clear that you are having an excellent week, excellent months, you are in an optimal condition of being flooded with corruption," he said: "The only lesson they can give us is how to plunder public funds, or how to allow a band of gangsters to plunder 3.7 million euros from the citizens of the Islands with fake masks," he said, referring to the Koldo case.

Throughout the plenary session, PP and Vox deputies shouted "Plus Ultra" at the socialists, referring to the case involving Zapatero. The deputy spokesperson for Vox, Sergio Rodríguez, asked a parliamentary question specifically to the Government on this matter. Costa responded by accusing Pedro Sánchez of staging a "farce": "'Sanchismo' did not reach Moncloa to combat corruption, but to corrupt, from day one." In parallel, he lamented having had to "suffer" during the two previous left-wing governments "eight years of moral liturgies from the socialists." "To be a socialist is to have little and give a lot, Zapatero used to say, but what he meant is that to be a socialist politician consists of not stealing little, but of 'grabbing' a lot," he said. Rodríguez said he was not happy about Zapatero's indictment. "No true patriot could be," he assured, and insisted that it represents a "discredit to Spain."

Prohens defends excluding newcomers from aid

In the control session, the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, also defended the pacts with Vox to exclude newcomers from social aid, by setting a minimum residency (of three years or more) to access them. Although the head of the Executive avoided the concept of 'national priority' coined by the far-right, she insisted that "the Government governs for the people here, thinking of the residents". "We defend that access to certain benefits takes into account criteria of roots and legal residence", she asserted. "It is what the Constitution allows us", she sentenced.