US EditionThe Departure of the 'Plumber' Leire Díez From the PSOE and the Ugly Conclusion that Can Be Drawn
- Yesterday, following a lengthy meeting at the PSOE headquarters, Leire Díez chose to resign from the party amid ongoing judicial investigations into corruption.
- Her resignation follows a background of the PSOE facing corruption scandals and attempts to distance the party from her actions, claiming she acted alone.
- The party held a lengthy meeting at its national headquarters while Pedro Sánchez avoided public appearances, signaling efforts to shield him from scandal fallout.
- Convictions related to the GAL terrorism case involved former PSOE officials Barrionuevo and Vera in 1998, and critics describe the current events as a damaging 'farce.'
- Díez’s departure may delay deeper investigations within PSOE and reflects broader challenges the party faces with implicated members and internal tensions.
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The appearance this Wednesday by former socialist activist Leire Díez, which should serve to clarify the audios in which it appears asking compromising information for the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to an entrepreneur investigated by the justice system, ended up being a statement without questions with sainete dyes in which Díez merely repeated the justifications that he had already given. The former militant insisted that…
It insists on registering the conversations in which it sought to gather information about the UCO in the framework of a journalistic investigation.
The party reports that the decision has come from the former socialist councillor herself and that once it becomes effective, the file opened by her talks with imputed businessmen will be suspended.
The supposed plumber of the PSOE, Leire Díaz, protagonist of a new sainete in the politics of Spain, also harassed the socialist mayor of Palencia, Miriam Andrés. He did so during the Party Primarys in 2017 that confronted Pedro Sánchez against Susana Díaz, according to the leader herself revealed this Wednesday, who considers that the former socialist militant, who yesterday caused a drop in the formation of her own free will, should have been …
Leire Díez stars in an operetta that reveals the lack of seriousness of the PSOE and its turn towards populism in Spain.
La Vanguardia
The former socialist militant Leire Díez – “I asked for my voluntary leave, and I hope it will be temporary” – this Wednesday has led an unusual appearance before the press in a hotel in Madrid, but without accepting questions, in which she has defended her version of the controversy that keeps her in the eye of the hurricane, after allegedly having sought compromising information against charges of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civi…
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