The plenary session of Parliament of the Balearic Islands approved this Tuesday, at the request of VOX, to create a investigation commission non-permanent that analyzes possible irregularities committed in the purchase of masks from a company related to the Koldo plot and he finally did it with the abstention from the PSIBafter not obtaining a commitment for the president of the Government, Marga Prohens, to appear, and considering that the investigation will stop with the change of government and will not address the current processing of the claim file.
The creation of the commission has finally been approved with the votes in favor of PP and VOXthe abstention of the PSIB, MÉS for Mallorca and MÉS for Menorca and the only one vote against Unidas Podemos.
During the debate, the spokesman for the PSIBIago Negueruela, has addressed directly the spokesperson of VOXIdoia Ribas, to ask him on several occasions If the appearance of the president of the Government will be accepted. “You’ll see,” Ribas responded from his seat. “We wanted to vote yes and we can only abstain,” the socialist had said.
In his first intervention, the PSIB spokesperson had made it a condition for the favorable vote that the processing of the file to date be investigated and “without vetoing anyone«.
Negueruela has criticized that in the story to justify the need for the investigation commission, Ribas stops at the change of government in July 2023 and has claimed the need to “seek all the facts and pursue the truth.”
The socialist has insisted in this way that the file “is alive” and has claimed that it is being investigated precisely thanks to the transparency of the PSIB. «We will not participate in a witch hunt or a circus. What role does VOX want to play, on the side of the investigation or on the side of covering up what happened after July 6, 2023?
Previously, Ribas has defended the need for Parliament to investigate the purchase and subsequent claim in the face of the social alarm generated by the possible criminal acts that would have derived from the awarding of contracts with various administrations, the Balearic Islands among them. He has also referred to the “million-dollar amount” of the contract being analyzed, the agents involved and the derived economic impact.
The VOX deputy has referred, among other issues, to the verbal agreement for the purchase and the creation of a subsequent file, the speed of payment, the expiration of the masks and that the certificates that pointed to the uselessness of the masks be hidden from the Civil Guard.
Idoia Ribas has insisted that The previous Government only started the claim “the elections were lost” and, in addition, setting as a reference the maximum price of the masks “to favor the company in the plot.”
At this moment, when Ribas has finished his speech, the deputy spokesperson for the PSIB, Marc Pons, has pointed out from the bench that “there is more.”