Sewers and plumbers. Two terms perhaps not so foreign to politics, but that until a few years ago were unknown to the majority of citizens. Its function requires it. Its protagonists move in the shadows, scratching for scraps of information that may be useful for the partisan interests they defend. They work in a gray area, but sometimes they cross the red line and set off alarm bells in Justice, as happened with the PP’s alleged maneuvers to boycott judicial investigations into Gürtel. and the so-called Bárcenas paperswhich were exposed with Operation Kitchen, which is being tried these days. Now, new judicial investigations point to the existence of another plot, this time linked to the PSOE, with the same objective: to disrupt the judicial cases that affect the environment of the party and the Government. And what has been investigated up to this point reveals an unexpected plumbing connection: Leire Díez’s team of plumbers approached those in the popular plot and others involved in corruption cases. The sewers feed each other.
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