Spain's Guardia Civil unit links Cerdán and Leire Díez to PSOE's dirty-tricks operation
The UCO concludes that Santos Cerdán and Leire Díez ran the PSOE's 'sewer' to protect the prime minister. Judge Pedraz is investigating the Socialist network.
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Cerdán and Leire Díez ran the PSOE's 'sewer', according to the UCO
What does a former Organisation Secretary of Spain's Socialist Party have to do with a scheme to protect the prime minister? The Guardia Civil's Operative Central Unit (UCO) has just placed him at the centre of a court file obtained by EL MUNDO. The report, part of the case being handled by Judge Pedraz, claims that the party's 'sewer' was 'run' by Santos Cerdán and former MP Leire Díez. According to investigators, Cerdán would have put 'the party's own structure' at the service of a incivil organisation whose goal was 'to protect the interests of the Prime Minister'.
The UCO report: a incivil structure embedded in the party
The document, first reported by the newspaper, describes a network operating from within the PSOE. This is not an individual lapse but an alleged use of the party's resources for illegal ends. The UCO points to two key figures of the Socialist apparatus as leaders of the network: Cerdán, former Organisation Secretary, and Leire Díez, who allegedly coordinated the operations. Judge Pedraz is investigating whether these actions concealed a parallel structure designed to safeguard Sánchez's position.
What now? Between pre-trial detention and 'nothing will happen'
Reactions were not long in coming, though most are steeped in scepticism. While some are calling for Díez's pre-trial detention – she remains free and doing television – others take it for granted that the case will fizzle out with excuses about a 'PP police force' or references to the Kitchen affair. 'They now have two scapegoats to spend three years in jail and come out loaded,' sums up one line of thinking. The prosecution will have to decide whether to request precautionary measures, but the underlying rumour is that the machinery of impunity is already oiled. With a party that has shown the muscle to weather judicial storms, the only certainty is that the case will remain open and every new chapter will feed the same question: how deep does the sewer go?
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What does a former Organisation Secretary of Spain's Socialist Party have to do with a scheme to protect the prime minister? The Guardia Civil's Operative Central Unit (UCO) has just placed him at the centre of a court file obtained by EL MUNDO. The report, part of the case being handled by Judge Pedraz, claims that the party's 'sewer' was 'run' by Santos Cerdán and former MP Leire Díez. According to investigators, Cerdán would have put 'the party's own structure' at the service of a incivil organisation whose goal was 'to protect the interests of the Prime Minister'.
The UCO report: a incivil structure embedded in the party
The document, first reported by the newspaper, describes a network operating from within the PSOE. This is not an individual lapse but an alleged use of the party's resources for illegal ends. The UCO points to two key figures of the Socialist apparatus as leaders of the network: Cerdán, former Organisation Secretary, and Leire Díez, who allegedly coordinated the operations. Judge Pedraz is investigating whether these actions concealed a parallel structure designed to safeguard Sánchez's position.
What now? Between pre-trial detention and 'nothing will happen'
Reactions were not long in coming, though most are steeped in scepticism. While some are calling for Díez's pre-trial detention – she remains free and doing television – others take it for granted that the case will fizzle out with excuses about a 'PP police force' or references to the Kitchen affair. 'They now have two scapegoats to spend three years in jail and come out loaded,' sums up one line of thinking. The prosecution will have to decide whether to request precautionary measures, but the underlying rumour is that the machinery of impunity is already oiled. With a party that has shown the muscle to weather judicial storms, the only certainty is that the case will remain open and every new chapter will feed the same question: how deep does the sewer go?
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