The President of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will not go before the Salamanca Court of Instruction No. 5, where he will be summoned as a witness this Friday to testify for the complaint by a group of affiliates against the party, which is calling for a provincial congress to be convened a year and a half late. The conservative formation argues that the opposition leader “was not president at the time of the events analyzed” and reported his absence to the court, where he was summoned as a witness. Instead, “the game’s technical staff will be aware of the required data.” The PP argues that the events “refer to a 2017 national congress”, although the critics’ claim relates to the 2021 one, which is still being postponed.
The PP has issued a statement confirming that its leader will not enter the Salamanca courts, as requested by the judge leading the case, as he is the party’s primary officer. The reaction of the complainants (a total of 147 signatories from the approximately 1,000 affiliates that the right-wing formation has in the province) was angry. “That’s ridiculous; The facts do not have to do with the 2017 Congress, but with a Congress that was supposed to take place in 2021 and which has not taken place since his presidency,” argues a member of this critical faction. Feijóo, who received the summons on January 5, has been in command for almost a year with no major developments in the PP Charro case or movements. The leadership of the Salamanca PP has been handed over to a manager for a few weeks following the resignation of its president, Francisco Javier Iglesias, although this manager is headed by positions related to Iglesias. Salamanca is the only province of Castilla y León governed by the PP with Vox where the Territorial Congress was not held.
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Sources close to this fight indicate that one of the great motivations of the sector commanding the formation in Salamanca, a stronghold of regional president Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, is to avoid new leaderships contrary to the current one designed and are linked to Mañueco, who was mayor of the city from 2011 to 2018. “What a way to laugh at everyone,” says the critical wing, which will stand by its demand. This sector has asked for precautionary measures in the form of the postponement of the Congress by a year and a half.
Salamanca complicates Feijóo
Feijóo has another open front in Salamanca as they continue to rule on whether the PP was illegally funded for the 2017 primaries. The primary case judge admitted “evidence of illegal funding” because in this campaign the Salamanca leadership it was just over 60,000 euros raised to pay the debtor subsidiaries’ contributions and that they could vote. Of these, around 24,000 euros are of unknown origin and are being investigated. According to several of them, senior PP officials were instructed to contribute their money to pay off this debt. Mañueco himself admitted to contributing €1,000 in two payments from his pocket. As part of the court proceedings, Francisco Javier Iglesias, the party’s executive director, Isabel Sánchez, and the PP itself were recognized as legal entities.
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