El pasado de corrupción del PP de Madrid aflora a menos de un año de las próximas elecciones autonómicas
La Audiencia Nacional inaugura una batería de juicios a Francisco Granados e Ignacio González, hombres de confianza de Aguirre, y otros exconsejeros populares
The corruption past of the Madrid PP (Partido Popular) resurfaces less than a year before the upcoming autonomous elections, according to wire material. Francisco Granados, a former influential councilor to Esperanza Aguirre in the Madrid Community Government and regional PP secretary general, waited in line discreetly in June at a cash machine in the underground second floor of the National Court.
His objective was to buy a coffee for 55 cents. The powerful and corrupt former mayor was wasting time during a break from one of the sessions of the major trial he faced for the Púnica case, which ended with his condemnation to two and a half years in prison in July. The impact of this sentence, which came more than a decade after he left public life, had little traction in the current political debate of the region.
However, it is the first drop of a storm that will rise after the summer with new oral hearings on corruption plots that will now be presented against the former PP leader Ignacio González.
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