The end of impunity or electoral staging? Spain asked Friday if the former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato , temporarily arrested the previous day in the spotlight of the cameras, is the scapegoat of the right in the fight against corruption.
“Scapegoat” was the expression that was on everyone’s lips and in all the newspapers, showing the photo of former Minister of Economy, long considered the architect of the economic ‘miracle’ Spanish before the crisis , entering into a police car.
Rato, already charged in two other cases of corruption, is now under investigation for “money (capital), fraud and concealment of assets” judicial sources said.
The former minister was detained on Thursday night for several hours while investigators searched his home and his Madrid office, place the latter to which he returned on Friday to read the registry.
For most analysts, former director of the IMF between 2004 and 2007 is the scapegoat of the Popular Party (PP, right), the formation of prime minister Mariano Rajoy accused of not doing anything necessary to fight corruption angers the Spaniards.
Especially considering that conservatives are losing steam in the polls as the municipal and regional elections of May 24 approach and Terms of end of the year.
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“The PP is finding that corruption is doing far more damage than I thought and you will not be able to recover helpful only speech recovery and seen in Rato an opportunity, “said political scientist Anton Losada, noting that it was already” burned and have decided to make an example ” .
PP Temporarily Banned in October, Rato , former vice president of the Spanish government, already accused of fraud, misappropriation, accounting offenses, forgery and unfair administration, the IPO in 2011 of Bankia, who headed the bank between 2010 and 2012, and ended nationalized. He faces charges in a case of using opaque to the treasury corporate bank cards Bankia.
But the Conservative party denies having sacrificed to this ancient rival Rajoy within the PP. “It’s bizarre to think that the PP detention suit you: do you much harm.”, Party spokesman in the European Parliament, Esteban González, on television
For the political scientist Ignacio Martín Blanco said Friday The PP had “no interest in seeing this come to light”, but research shows a “rule of law that works better than some claim.”
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The investigation of Rato and others is “a particular investigation, we are not facing facts related to the post, you no longer have,” he said government spokeswoman Soraya Saenz de Santamaria.
The Tax Office “works independently and securely,” said Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro, former aide to Rato , stating that the investigation had been open “enough time”. “For a year,” according to sources close to the investigation.
If you really it was a sacrifice, there seemed to be satisfied either the opposition or citizens movements. “We are facing a government is the government of corruption and not me, you are telling the judges,” said the leader of the anti-liberal party we, Pablo Iglesias.
“We are in the hands of a mob,” he added, returning a call to demonstrate against the PP headquarters in Madrid. There were concentrated in the afternoon about 200 people who chanted “There’s the cave of Ali Baba!” or “Hands up, this is a robbery!”.
“It seems that nothing happens at headquarters the ruling party. We live with complete normality and say they know nothing about it. We feel helpless “said Alberto Pajares, an architecture student 26 years
Antonio Hernando, spokesman for the Socialist Party, the main opposition party, agreed.” Government and PP are a Titanic sinking and Rajoy aims keep playing the violin and throwing people overboard. “
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