Sources from La Moncloa have assured this Friday that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “has never had a meeting or an encounter with Leire Díez”, contrary to what the former socialist militant wrote down in one of her notebooks. “Meeting with PS,” the PSOE plumber wrote in a notebook included in the case summary, in a possible reference to the head of the Executive and without developing the content of that alleged contact. This morning, Sánchez assured that he did not know what Díez was doing. “I have never been informed of Mrs. Díez’s adventures because I would never have tolerated them,” he said in Tivat (Montenegro). In the ranks of the PP they do not trust Sánchez’s words. “We are witnessing the collapse, the definitive degradation of a Government, of a president who increasingly resorts to bad excuses as a bad payer,” said popular spokesperson Borja Sémper. Sánchez has also expressed his “trust and support” to the general director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, who acknowledged yesterday that she had met with Leire Díez on two occasions. González assures that he did not talk about the investigations against the PSOE and that he interrupted the relationship when she raised her “conspiracy theory.” The PP has announced that the Senate Interior Commission is going to summon the director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, to an urgent appearance next week to give explanations about her meetings with the former socialist militant.
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