The Board of the Congress of Representatives has agreed to process PP’s request to create a commission of inquiry in the Azud case focused on the alleged illegal financing of the PSOE and PSPV in the Community of Valencia, but the Board will have the final say. As reported by the spokespersons, Efe agency.
At their meeting this Tuesday, The Congressional Council approved the establishment of this commission, but its decision is a preliminary procedure. given Its constitution depends on those formed by the Advisory Board, where it is foreseeable that this initiative will not continue..
In fact, PP requested that a committee of inquiry be set up in Congress on the Azud case after the Senate Committee, along with the Socialists and the PNV, rejected the Populares’ attempt to investigate the issue in the Upper House.
The Azud case is investigating an alleged bribery and kickback scheme in the Valencian Community, including an alleged fraudulent funding by PSPV-PSOE for the 2007 regional and local election campaigns. However, more than thirty PP charges are also being investigated to date.. In this sense, the source of the case lies in the contracts of the Valencia City Council, in which the family atmosphere of the former mayor with PP Rita Barberá will participate. His brother-in-law, José María Corbín, is one of the main people investigated.
Apart from this context, the PP accuses the chairman of the Generalitat Valenciana, socialist Ximo Puig, and the PSOE of paralyzing the investigation of the Azud case in the Valencian Courts for a year; so Valencians “don’t know how this party is financed.”