The MEP and Podemos candidate for the general elections on November 29, Irene Montero, assured this Friday that the new arrests made in relation to the Koldo case are another example of the corruption linked to the bipartisanship of PSOE and PP, during her speech at the Europa Press informative breakfasts.
Montero warned that corruption makes citizens lose confidence in governments and that it constitutes proof that executives are not serving “to enforce the law or guarantee equal opportunities.” In her speech, the Podemos electoral leader insisted that corruption is a way of transferring “public money into private hands,” sometimes in a “legalized” manner through tenders and, on other occasions, illegally.
Criticism of the lack of prohibitions for contracting with the Administration
The former Minister of Equality criticized that the prohibition for companies linked to corruption cases to bid for contracts with the Public Administration has not yet been implemented. As she explained, such a measure, in addition to punishing irregularities, would allow more opportunities for small businesses to formalize contracts with public administrations and prevent “the same ones from always taking the money.”
In the same vein, Irene Montero denounced the existence of a “bipartisan political and business majority” that, in her opinion, “continues to protect corruption as a form of government and that continues to say that the problem is that it is known, not that it exists.”
“The problem is that it is known”
The Podemos candidate stressed that, for the major parties, the problem is not corruption itself, but “that it is known,” while maintaining that citizens “do not want there to be corruption” and that, precisely because they perceive it as “so structural,” they distance themselves from politics.
In that context, Montero wondered how “a small self-employed person” must feel when observing “the wheeling and dealing that is done only with the same old companies, the big ones, those of the Ibex,” which, she pointed out, “thanks to these positions achieve more and more benefits.”
