Gaspar Zarrías, The once strong man of Manuel Chaves In the Junta de Andalucía he continues to work in the PSOE sanitary, even though he is destroyed for years in his business facet.
Born in Madrid in 1955, he rented in Leire Díez In the summer of 2024 in his consultant Zaño. An era in which the plumber of Santos Cerdán He took the opportunity to collect information for the UCO party, judges and prosecutors.
Among them, the public prosecutor José GrindaHe offered El Español, a sexual video that refused to publish this medium.
The recruitment of Díez is the last known contribution of the socialist super plumber. The man who succeeded in not moving a sheet without knowing in the Junta de Andalucía during five consecutive legislators.
He was a chairmanship advisor, first vice -president and acting president after the resignation of Manuel Chaves, in April 2009. He went to Madrid to become a vice -president at Rodríguez Zapatero.
It can be said that it was Zarrías The letterBecause his in the meantime lasted until the arrival of José Antonio Griñán As president of the Junta de Andalucía.
He also had a new destination, also in Madrid, also with Manuel Chaves, but in his case as State Secretary for Territorial Policy. A position that he held for a little more than two years.
19 consecutive years
It was the times when socialism blinded the figure of Chaves. King Midas of the voices in Andalusia who won one choice after the other. Nine -consecutive years of the government. Always flanked by Zarrías.
His strong man, who checked everything and who feared everyone in Andalusia because he knew everything. In San Telmo and in the game, where he had Luis Pizarro So that nobody will deviate from the marked path.
Zarrías checked everything on the surface, but also in the plumbing. It wasn’t something that was strange to him because he had been doing for years job For the game.
It is enough to remember what happened in the early 90s, with felipism tormented. A moment when drastic actions were needed to prevent defeats in parliament.
The time in which, as the chronicles say, the socialist party established in the Senate that of “A mood, one foot “.
It happened in the Senate on 10 May 1991. That day, amendments were voted on the IRPF Act. At the time of the mood, the cameras conquered Zarrías with two hands. For him and for an absent companion.
At the same time, the senator Joaquín GalánHe voted with one foot and with his hand. The result of the mood? 21 more than present senators.
It was the newspaper Sun The person who unveiled a scandal that went to posterity, and that ended without important consequences that go beyond a sanction to the socialist group.
The former Andalusian courses and former deputy in the Juan Antonio Viera and Gaspar Zarrías Congress.
Of course, the then president of the Senate, Juan José LabordaJustified what happened to ensure that it was “something common” and that “I didn’t think there was the intention to produce serious irregularities.”
This super plumber also has experience in Pucherazos.
It happened in Jaén in 1998. There, Zarrías was the secretary of the party since four years earlier.
Primary primary were celebrated to choose the General Secretary of the PSOE. They stood opposite each other Josep Borrell And Joaquín Almunia, That was the candidate of Ferraz. Elections in which the latter was imposed.
After the election process, the militant Jienense Manuel Aguilar He denounced election fraud. He assured that Zarrías already offered him two other people (all unemployed) a task in exchange for opting the process.
Why was it done? Because Borrell “was not the ideal partner, the game of the game did not support him and he had to beat him.”
The Pucherazo
The Amaño was simple. Aguilar and the other two people stood on the table of the PSOE of Jaén on the day of the mood. His mission was to introduce a hundred ballot papers in favor of Almunia.
Finally they could introduce 65 fraudulent voices with the help of the name of militants who did not intend to vote. According to Aguilar, “If it is not for them, Borrell would have been clearly imposed“
A scandal that the PSOE has resolved with an internal investigation and to blame the PP to use “an organized strategy” in addition to his “armed arm for waste -related issues, the newspaper The world “.
They were other times. Other times. Moments when nothing that was proposed years later started to be charged, tried and sentenced to nine years of disqualification by the provincial court of Seville for a crime of Continuous preaching in the case of honor.
In addition to him, a dozen positions of the Junta de Andalucía with former President Manuel Chaves at the head.
The constitutional, however, canceled his sentence in April 2024 because he had violated the right to criminal law. The same thing he did before with the rest of the defendants.
Forgiveness
Thus the last high position was that his conviction was void.
The redemption came. The forgiveness of sins. The moment that Andalusian socialism, just like Manuel Chaves previously, brought back honor.
And who can do better than the brand new secretary -general of the Andalusian socialists, María Jesús Montero.
It was in an act in Jaén, in which he praised the work of the formation in the region, the party that is “reference in Spain” and that Gaskar Zarrías had had for decades as a factotum.
“A teacher in socialist governments“, Said Montero. Maybe that’s why Zarrías chose to protect Leire Deez, to show him all his knowledge … in the government and in the sanitary facilities of the party.
