A clandestine operation against the Civil Guard? The PSOE categorically denies it.

MadridEvery day, news stories are published that attempt to tarnish the image of the PSOE, news that the party considers to be part of a "hunt by the political and media right." In this regard, this Monday the party publicly denied a report byThe Confidential which would reveal an alleged clandestine operation to expose the dirty laundry of the head of the economic crime department of the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas. The career of this high-ranking police officer. "We categorically deny this and reserve the right to take legal action [against the media]," said PSOE spokesperson Esther Peña. extort the citizens of this country. What I don't want is for this man, Antonio Balas, to become the executioner of us all. Pérez Dolset, who was in pretrial detention and opened a procedure against the Planeta group"I don't need everyone right now, okay? I need Balas. That's clear," the woman insists. Díez has acknowledged The Sixth who participated in this meeting, but denied having acted under instructions from the PSOE: "It was an investigative project," he stated, emphasizing that he is a journalist.

The PSOE considers it "tremendously unfair" to label Díez as "plumber of Ferraz" and underline that the publication ofThe Confidential It doesn't demonstrate his ties to the PSOE. The media outlet publishes photographs in which Díez enters and leaves the party's headquarters in Madrid, but management indicates that many people enter and leave every day. Socialist sources show no distrust of the work of the UCO (Union of the People's Union) in legal cases opened against Sánchez's entourage, such as in the cases of Ábalos or Begoña Gómez, although they do admit that leaks to the media are a "problem." They do not point directly to the Civil Guard and assert that they do not know where they come from, but PSOE spokesperson Esther Peña has referred to the publication in recent days of a supposed UCO report that has not yet been presented to the judge investigating the Koldo case and that allegedly reveals conversations between the PSOE's number three, Santos. "There is nothing true to support the defamation," Peña stated.

"Rotten modesty"

However, the PP has already taken advantage of the situation to point out "the stench of rot," in the words of the party's president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in an interview on Telecinco. "We are in the most absolute decline, we are going through the most difficult period for Spanish democracy, and a surgical cut is needed to begin a new era," he said. reports Andrea ZamoranoThe party's spokesperson, Borja Sémper, stated in a press conference from the party's headquarters in Génova that this reveals behavior "more typical of a mafia organization" than a political party. He has announced that he will summon Leire Díez to the Senate commission of inquiry created by the party, which has an absolute majority, to oversee the Socialists.