From Pedro J.'s prostitute to the journalist who wanted to get a job: Ábalos goes on the attack.
The former minister fires left and right at anyone who dares to question him.
BarcelonaBesieged by the corruption scheme involving the purchase of face masks by his right-hand man, Koldo García, the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, is not making enemies. He has decided to go on the offensive. The latest developments in the case, such as the hiring of mistresses by public companies that they didn't even get to work, they haven't silenced him. Not at all. The now unaffiliated member of Congress, who has always been very active on X, has opted to use social media as a defense strategy. There, he fires left and right at anyone who dares to question him. PP leaders and journalists are his favorite targets.
The most obvious proof of this offensive by land, sea and air is the publication that he has pinned on his X account. A week ago, The Objective revealed the existence of a fourth woman placed by Koldo García at the public company Emfesa in 2021, when Ábalos was still Minister of Transport. This woman was the former manager of the Pamplona brothel where the advisor worked as a doorman. Ábalos responded to the scoop by revealing that the director of this newspaper, Álvaro Nieto, had asked him for a job at the ministry when he was fired as editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The Country after Pedro Sánchez arrived at Moncloa.
In the face of the uproar generated by the tweet, which had more than a million views, Nieto published an article justifying his message, saying he had sent the message to Ábalos and two hundred other people related to the world of communications and politics in case they had any vacancies to fill. "I don't think it was a mistake," he stated, emphasizing that he had just had two children at the time and was terrified of not finding work. Ábalos didn't budge: "Asking for a job isn't undignified; that's not the problem. What's undignified is offering yourself as a mercenary," he retorted.
He wasn't the only media director to receive the blame. The director ofThe Spanish, Pedro J. Ramírez. After this media reported on Wednesday that the other three women who were placed in public companies (one of whom was a prostitute who accompanied Ábalos on his official trips) have been summoned to the Senate commission investigating the corruption plot, the former minister recalled the case of Exuperancia, the prostitute withThe World on a date that was secretly videotaped.
That same Wednesday, Ábalos also confronted PP senator Francisco Bernabé on social media. "He who should be silent always speaks!" he retorted, after the PP leader recalled that he had previously criticized him for an official trip he made to Peru with his family. Ábalos responded that he had requested to attend a conference on wiretaps in Thailand, despite being over fifty, and that as the Spanish government delegate in Murcia, he sent the police to "beat up" residents who were demanding the burying of the high-speed train.
On March 8, taking advantage of International Women's Day, Ábalos used the newspaper archives to counter the attacks he has received from the People's Party (PP) regarding his relationships with prostitutes in their crusade to undermine the Sánchez government, which they accuse of collusion.
The deputy secretary of the People's Party (PP), Elías Bendodo, one of the leading figures against Ábalos, also did not escape the former minister's attack. In his latest tweet about him, he recalled that MEP Alvise Pérez had denounced the PP leader's extramarital affairs and that he had placed some of his mistresses on Andalusian public television, without any investigation.
Another of the PP deputies singled out by Ábalos is Rafael Hernando, who in a tweet highlighted the former minister as Sánchez's second-in-command. "The same 'number 2' you asked for help to become a member of the Senate board. Do you remember, Rafa?" the accused responded.
