Sometimes everything happens purely by chance. Or not. The fact is that the long-awaited statement of the former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz at the National Court to defend himself against his alleged involvement in the police operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas coincided with the discovery of another plot supposedly organized by the PSOE to stop the judicial investigations against it.
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These are two notorious scandals, although the scope of the second one, which is still in an embryonic phase and where the main implicated and recipient of the assignment allegedly made by the PSOE is the former socialist member Leire Díez, remains to be seen. In contrast, in the Kitchen operation, a plot designed to get rid of compromising information about the illegal financing of the PP, there are accused a former minister, a former secretary of state, and five commissioners. It does not seem that the protagonists are on the same level.
From what we know about the new case affecting the PSOE, it seems that at its origin there is a link with the case affecting the former Interior leadership. Precisely some of the activities of the patriotic police that were recorded in audio by the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo served as a trigger for Leire Díez, along with others harmed by this plot, such as businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, to offer themselves to the PSOE to unmask judges, prosecutors, and police officers who supposedly were acting in concert against Pedro Sánchez’s circle.
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But of course, the organization secretary at that time was none other than Santos Cerdán, allegedly involved in corruption cases. What could go wrong? Everything. If the UCO investigation confirms it, we would be facing an indiscriminate and crude action against judges, prosecutors, and police officers to stop all their investigations. It was only missing that they would even be paid with false invoices.
Citizens do not deserve this whole circus, because it seriously damages the image of democracy and trust in institutions. And, with the experience of what we have seen in recent months, skepticism and mistrust do not only affect the executive power.
