<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The People’s parliamentary group has asked the government why Santos Cerdán, the former PSOE organizational secretary (allegedly involved in the Koldo corruption case), traveled to Morocco in 2019, accompanying the then Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, despite not holding any official position at the time.</strong></h4> In a written question submitted on November 19th by MPs Pablo Hispán, Belén Hoyo, and Pedro Muñoz Abrines, and published this Monday, December 1st, in the Official Gazette of the Spanish Parliament (BOCG), the People's Party (PP) states that, on November 18th, “the latest UCO report on the Koldo case confirmed an official trip to Morocco between January 24th and 26th, 2019, by a delegation from the Ministry of Transport, headed by José Luis Ábalos, but which also included Santos Cerdán, then the PSOE's territorial coordinator and holding no government position.” In the written question, for which a written response is also required, the PP asks the Executive whether “the Ministry of Transport covered any of Santos Cerdán's expenses as part of the official delegation that traveled to Morocco in January 2019.” The report also asks “in what capacity did Santos Cerdán travel to Morocco as part of that official delegation,” whether “he was at any official Spanish headquarters in Morocco in January 2019,” and whether “Mr. Cerdán used any means of transport belonging to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco in January 2019.” Cerdán is named in a report by the Civil Guard's Central Operative Unit (UCO) as the facilitator of the illegal commissions received by José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García for the awarding of public works contracts. Following this, last June he resigned as the PSOE's organizational secretary, a decision that triggered a major crisis within the party and forced Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to apologize to the public and announce an external audit of the PSOE.
