The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, has insisted that the party maintains “trust” in the former president of the Government José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and asks that the presumption of innocence be respected while the investigation into the case progresses. Plus Ultra case. “There are politicians who are turning this into a lynching in which President Zapatero has already been condemned even before he was going to make his first statement before the judge,” he denounced in an interview on TVE. For his part, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun (Comuns Sumar), assured this Thursday that the former president should have handed over to the State the jewelry valued at 1.3 million euros that, according to the defense of the former socialist leader, the king of Saudi Arabia gave him. “If there is a gift of this value, it should be given to State Heritage. It is a waste,” he stated in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio. Meanwhile, the PP insists on inviting the Government’s partners to support a motion of censure and force elections. The Executive continues to focus for now on negotiating the next budgets before proposing an electoral advance.
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