Ábalos, two prostitutes and a driver: the orgy Koldo recorded that cost public funds
On November 10, 2019, while Spaniards went to the polls for general elections, José Luis Ábalos, then PSOE Organization Secretary and number two in the Government, participated in an orgy with two women, according to audios recorded by his driver and confidant, Koldo García. The recording, sprinkled with Koldo's comments to his vvife about what he was seeing, has triggered a torrent of irony and repulsion: public money, allegedly, paid for the party.
The night in question: audios, witnesses and a key date
The audios, whose content has been released by media outlets such as El Español, show how Ábalos had sensual relations with two women, identified as Jessica and Melisa, while Koldo remained present and recording. "Oh my God, what images... For God's sake, I can't get over this," Koldo said to his vvife, according to the testimony collected. The date, November 10, 2019, is key: it coincided with the general elections that gave victory to Pedro Sánchez. While the polls were speaking, the Socialist Organization Secretary indulged in an orgy whose costs, as repeatedly pointed out, may have come from taxpayers' pockets. "Paid by us," has been repeated like a mantra in analyses.
A grotesque affair with a fiscal sarracena
The reaction has been unanimous in describing the episode as "grotesque," with recurrent comparisons to the character Torrente or to the excesses of Luis Roldán. But here the economic focus is inevitable: a high-ranking government official, while the nation voted, enjoyed sensual services whose payment, according to reports, would have been covered by opaque funds linked to the Koldo scheme. The data that has emerged does not allow quantifying the exact expenditure, but the fact that the driver recorded and commented on the scene suggests it was not an exceptional activity within the ministry's routine. "Don't trust anyone at work, everyone looks out for themselves," summarized an analysis that has circulated as a learned lesson.
The question no one answers: what about the images?
Although sources have indicated that the recordings are only audios, anticipation for a possible video is maximum. Justice, meanwhile, investigates the Koldo scheme, which has implicated several Socialist officials. The question remaining in the air is whether this level of institutional degeneration, with public money involved, will have political consequences or will be diluted in the next scandal. For now, citizens are witnessing a spectacle that, as has been said, neither Santiago Segura nor Torbe together could have written.
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