PSOE president Cristina Narbona has acknowledged that the indications gathered in the UCO reports about the activities of Leire Díez and Santos Cerdán to destroy judicial cases affecting the party are “worrying.”
She explained this before the National Court judge Santiago Pedraz in her testimony as a witness in the so-called ‘Leire case’ in which it is being investigated whether the PSOE orchestrated a plan to destabilize judicial processes affecting the party or the environment of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
The socialist pointed out that, always under the presumption of innocence, after reading the reports of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, worrying indications appear about the actions of the person known as the PSOE ‘plumber’, Leire Díez, according to sources present at the interrogation.
Narbona was summoned because a series of WhatsApp messages between her and Leire appeared, specifically the day Sánchez published the letter to the citizens in April 2024 where he announced that he was taking five days of reflection following the indictment of his wife, Begoña Gómez.
The president explained that Díez, whom she had known since 2017, contacted her and referred her to speak with who was then the party’s secretary of organization, Santos Cerdán. Afterwards, according to her statement, she had no further knowledge of what was intended or could be done.
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Upon leaving the National Court, she explained that she had made “absolutely clear” to the judge that she had “no knowledge whatsoever” of the alleged plot under investigation. She indicated that she met Díez in 2017 but “did not know at all” that she was organizing a plot within the party.
“She told me she knew facts that were important. By facts I understood facts, not anything related to what is being investigated,” she said. When she spoke to her about it, she referred her to Santos Cerdán. A few days later, according to her testimony, she asked him about the meeting and the then secretary of organization assured her that Díez “had not brought anything of interest.”
In that exchange of messages, the person known as the PSOE “plumber” spoke of “redirecting” the attacks against Pedro Sánchez, offering “qualified help” and turning the matter “inside out.” Narbona responded that she “had told that to Santos [Cerdán] the other day.”
