Cospedal and Fernández Díaz get rid of the Kitchen commission thanks to Sánchez’s electoral advance

The commission promoted by PSOE, Unidas Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu and which was to serve as a battering ram in the battle against the PP has come to nothing in the end

If there are those who benefit from the advancement of the elections announced by Pedro Sánchez, they are the more than 20 summoned to appear before the Investigation Commission of the Kitchen operation and the ‘operation Catalonia’ congressional. Specifically, the former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal and the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz. Neither of them should parade through the Lower House after it was published this Tuesday in the State official newsletter (BOE) the dissolution of the Cortes and, therefore, of this commission that has only had one protagonist, the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.

The commission promoted by PSOE, Unidas Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu and which was to serve as a battering ram in the battle against the PP has come to nothing in the end. Sánchez’s decision to call elections on July 23 means that the Cortes -Congress and Senate- will be dissolved and everything that was being processed at this time, also the commissions that were in operation, decaigan.

Thus, the publication in the BOE of the electoral advance is almost a measure of grace for Cospedal and Fernández Díaz. The two have escaped having to go to Congress to explain the alleged use of resources of the Ministry of the Interior during the mandate of Mariano Rajoy to spy on political opponents and former PP treasurer Luís Bárcenas. Both Cospedal and Fernández Díaz already went to the Lower House in 2020 to another commission on the same matter and whose conclusions placed both at the top of this network of corruption.

What will not be investigated

The intention of the Socialists and their parliamentary allies was to use this commission to hinder the PP and, furthermore, they tried to use its implementation to cover up the corruption plot led by the Socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, alias ‘Tito Berni’. The object of the investigations was going to be, on the one hand, the use of reserved resources by the Ministry of the Interior to spy on Bárcenas and steal evidence on the ‘b-box’ of the PP and, on the other, to obtain information on the bank accounts of Catalan politicians in the Principality of Andorra.

However, although they agreed on the matter to be discussed, the PSOE, Unidas Podemos, ERC and other formations were slow to reach an agreement on who to summon. The only two who agreed were Villarejo and the former president of the Private Bank of Andorra (BPA) Higini Cierco The ex-commissioner attended and affirmed that the ‘Catalonia operation’ was designed in the presidency of the Government of Rajoy and controlled by the ex-vice president Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. The banker alleged problems to attend and has already been freed forever.

In a second round, 20 names were agreed upon. Among them was not that of Rajoy, who was saved by the PSOE. Yes, the former Secretary of State for Security was there Francisco Martinez; the former deputy director of Police Operations Eugenio Pino, and the former director general of the National Police and former PP senator, ignacio sewn. In addition, there were a dozen high-ranking police officers. All of them are saved.