Bárcenas points to Mariano Rajoy

Operation Kitchen was a conspiracy mounted from within the State itself with the PP government to prevent the Bárcenas case and the scandal over the illegal financing of the Popular Party from splashing its main leaders, especially Mariano Rajoy. And it must be said that after hearing Bárcenas himself in court this Monday, it seems that the operation achieved its main objective, which was to save Rajoy. The former PP treasurer explained that he recorded a conversation with him in which he handed over a certain amount of money and a paper with the "B" accounts. But this audio has never seen the light of day. Why? Well, because the agents of the so-called "patriotic police" were responsible for erasing any trace of it.

Let us remember that the other incriminating evidence against Mariano Rajoy was his appearance in the so-called "Bárcenas papers", which was the document in which the former treasurer noted the undeclared bonuses he paid to the main leaders of the PP. In one of them, payments to a certain "M. Rajoy" appear for the amount of 25,000 euros per year, but the National High Court that tried the case gave little credibility to the document because it detected contradictions with other versions of the "B" accounts. So, in the end, Mariano Rajoy and other leaders such as María Dolores de Cospedal or Javier Arenas have not had to face any responsibility for having collected undeclared money which, let us remember, came from commissions for public works that companies paid to Bárcenas.

But the operation was not perfect, because it was discovered, and now those facing heavy prison sentences are the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, and his second-in-command, Francisco Martínez. It is implausible, however, that the operation to steal and destroy the documents that Bárcenas was hiding was carried out without the knowledge of the then President of the Spanish government and of the PP, Mariano Rajoy. And we are talking about major scandals of democracy, as the police were used not to pursue criminals but to protect them by boycotting the action of justice.

With that money, even the renovation of the PP headquarters in Madrid was paid for, which led Pablo Casado to state that he was considering a change of address because he considered that the building on Génova street had become an emblem of the party's corruption. But the years have passed, and the PP continues to be installed in that headquarters renovated with illegal money as if nothing had happened.

We still don't know what the outcome of the trial will be, but it can be said that the investigation of the case, carried out by the controversial Manuel García-Castellón (the same one who wanted to charge Carles Puigdemont with terrorism), renounced going beyond the figures of Fernández Díaz and Martínez. Therefore, it can already be foreseen that if they are convicted, the PP will disassociate itself from them, will blame them, and will continue to maintain Mariano Rajoy as one of its references.