The Supreme Court’s sentencing of former Minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 years in prison for the Mascarillas case has caused a chain of reactions in the political landscape. On the one hand, the PP calls for the resignation of the president, Pedro Sánchez, and considers it “indecent for him to continue one more minute” in office, although it refuses to present a motion of censure due to the risk of losing it. On the other hand, the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, was “surprised” this Monday that the commission agent Víctor de Aldama has only been sentenced to four and a half years and that his sentence is also suspended, so he will not have to go to prison. “I am very surprised that the corrupter does not go to prison today,” he said, demanding an anti-corruption agency. The PSOE also highlights this part of the sentence. Its spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, has asked “if it pays to be corruptor in Spain”, while the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, has used irony: “Do you see it, children? If you commit crimes, but then you behave well and ‘collaborate’, forgiveness will make its way.”
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