The witnesses to that meeting told Ábalos that Sanchez and Otegi had met
For her part, the first Vice-President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has denied having held this meeting and has confirmed that she is not concerned about what former Minister José Luis Ábalos may say.
Former Minister José Luis Ábalos said on Wednesday that "witnesses" told him that in 2018 there was a meeting between the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Arnaldo Otegi in the Basque Country to agree on a motion of censure.
On this alleged meeting of Sanchez, Otegi and Santos Cerdán on a farm in the Basque Country to negotiate a motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, Ábalos has written on the social network X that he can only say "what the face-to-face sources told him".
"In fact, that meeting existed," Ábalos said, the day before the Supreme Court decided whether he could go to prison after the Public Prosecutor's Office and the indictments requested a review of his precautionary measures after demanding high prison sentences for him and his former adviser Koldo García for the first trial of the 'Koldo case' on the network of pandemic masks.
The President of the Government and the Secretary-General of EH Bilduhave denied that this meeting took place , and Executive sources have assured us that Sanchez has never met with Otegi.
The Spanish Government denies it
For her part, the First Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Minister of Finance,María Jesús Montero, has denied that this meeting took place and has assured her that she is not concerned about what former Minister José Luis Ábalos may say.
The Minister has said that he does not agree with giving greater credibility to persons "prosecuted by the courts" than to those who are not charged.
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