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The former socialist leader was in contact with Moncloa all day, where he was supported until he knows the UCO report.
Santos Cerdán He has announced that he resigns from his position as secretary of the PSOE organization and that he leaves his seat in the congress, after he has known the UCO (Civil Guard) report that immediately implies him in the collection of public works committees.
Cerdán made a statement of a statement early in the afternoon in which this decision is announced “In defense of this party that this country owes so much, and of this government“. There is the circumstance that the last two secretaries of the PSOE organization are being investigated in different phases; José Luis ábalos He is accused and suspended for the militancy and was abruptly relieved by Sánchez in July 2021 and now Cerdán is about to be accused of corruption. The two consecutive correct hands of Pedro Sánchez In the game.
Hours earlier, Cerdán had announced several times in the congress that he would appear at a press conference to respond to the accusations of the report, but finally he opted for a statement. During the day he went to communication with La Moncloa and even some sources say that he went to the head office of the government’s presidency early in the afternoon.
Sanchez gave the party and the government on Tuesday to support Cerdán. In fact, they did this intensely in the congress on Wednesday. He followed that night when a rise of the report was known and remained on Thursday morning until the full report was known.
The socialist leaders insure in his statement that ‘secretary of the organization of the PSOE has been the greatest privilege of my entire life. It is an honor that will always accompany me. That and have helped to form a progressive government that Spain has led to live its greatest levels of growth, employment and rights. And all this despite the opposite, which are a lot. “
“I hope to devote myself exclusively to my defense and offer all the relevant explanation to show that, as I have indicated today, I have never committed illegality, nor have I been in an accomplice,” he adds, in addition to ratifying that he will be explained at the Supreme Court where he was summarized on 25 June.
After the seat of the seat has renounced, it will no longer be necessary for the Supreme Court to ask the plea of the congress and to see if the research in the Supreme Court remains due to the condition of Afforado de ábalos.
When knowing the report, representatives and socialist leaders showed their abandonment private and they all thought that Cerdán at least resigns.
De Cerdán’s statement is concluded by ensuring that he will ask his lawyers “to be in the
Judicial procedure to study all actions carried out, and in particular the reports I am mentioned, with the purpose and trust to be able to erase all the doubts about the references to my person. They are complicated times, but the PSOE is more necessary than ever. And I will always do what is better for my party and for my country.
I repeat my innocence and I trust that it is clear after my statement. “
