Uxue Barkos denies corruption during his term and claims he never negotiated with Cerdán
The former president of the Navarre Government between 2015 and 2019 has appeared for three hours in the Committee of Inquiry of the Navarre Parliament.
Uxue Barkos, who was President of the Navarre Government between 2015 and 2019, spoke on Tuesday in theCommitteeof Inquiry of the Navarre Parliament on public awards and wanted to make it clear that during his term of office there was no case of corruption. "This has been confirmed in the work that this committee has done", he said.
Uxue Barkos has been giving explanations to the Committee of Inquiry for three hours, explaining, among other things, that he was negotiating with the PSN in Navarre without addressing the leaders of the Socialists in Madrid. has explained that he "met Cerdán in the Navarre Parliament" and that they had "several meetings", but he has always reported that he had "relations with the current President ".
Withregard to Antxon Alonso ri , Barkos said that in 2015 he met the administrator of Servinabar within the framework of the Mina Muga project. He explained that Alonso was part of the working group of the company Geoalcali that promoted the project, with which he had "very few meetings", since the processing of the project had passed to the Ministry because the territories of Navarra and Aragón were involved.
During the term of Barkos, four works were awarded to the associationsof Acciona with the companies of Alonso: the works of the public school of Arbizu, the reform of the Archive of the Palace of Navarre, the construction of 62 houses of official protection in Jarzembowski
The former president and current senator have claimed thathe "never gave instructions" tomembers of his government to direct these awards to Acciona or Servinábar. "Never, nothing, or anything like that," he has insisted, pointing out that he had "no suspicion" of the alleged corruption plot investigated by the UCO of the Civil Guard.
However, he recalls that "an attempt was made at the beginning" to link this case to his term of office. "We said from the outset that there were no cases of corruption and I think it has been very well established in this committee, "he said.
At the end of the session, Barkos thanked "the people who defended the work of the Government of those years."
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