The congresswoman for Las Palmas and socialist general secretary in Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, has starred in a "forceful intervention" in the Congress of Deputies in which she has denounced the Popular Party's strategy of "twisting reports and lying without proof" while remaining silent on corruption cases affecting its own ranks.
Corujo reproached the PP for the political use of the report from the Central Operative Unit (UCO) and its attempt to construct a “narrative of a plot” against the Government, despite the fact that said report does not find any criminal conduct on the part of Minister Ángel Víctor Torres, former president of the Government of the Canary Islands. The deputy from Lanzarote recalled that, after weeks announcing “the apocalypse in the form of a report, the document has debunked the story that the PP had been telling for a month in the hallways as if they were crime reporters”.
During her speech, the deputy highlighted the PP's "selective memory" when it comes to its own corruption cases, alluding to episodes such as the **Bárcenas papers**, messages of support to defendants, or decisions by the Council of Ministers under Cristóbal Montoro's mandate, which according to the UCO benefited very specific interests. At the same time, she emphasized the PP's silence regarding the arrest, on the same day, of the president of a Provincial Council governed by that party.
"They don't need proof, just a microphone"
"No judge has said it, no prosecutor has suggested it, but you repeat that there is a plot because you don't need proof, just a microphone," Corujo reproached the Popular Party bench.“When corruption splashes their own, they stay silent. When it comes to attacking the Government, they fill headlines even if there's nothing behind it,” he addedFaced with that attitude, Corujo defended the PSOE's approach to public integrity: "When someone in our party fails, we dismiss them, we remove them, and we ask for their resignation. When it's in yours, they protect them or change the boss so no one is bothered," he stated, contrasting "the culture of responsibility" with "the culture of covering up and looking the other way."The congresswoman insisted that "no one is vaccinated against corruption," but stressed that the difference lies in each political party's response when a case arises: "The difference is not in a case appearing, but in what is done when it appears. We cut it off; you cover it up. We take responsibility; you shift blame as if they were leaflets at a fair," she summarizedCorujo also recalled the PP's "almost poetic tranquility" in living with contradiction, coming "to give lessons" on the same day that the arrest of the president of a PP Provincial Council became known
The intervention concluded with a direct message to the Popular Party's bench: "One day, if you have any shame left, you will apologize for your own actions, for what you've covered up, and for what you are trying to blame on those who have been declared innocent today. Until then, we will continue to do what is necessary: tell the truth, even if it gives you an allergy to hear it."
