Anti-corruption brings Esperanza Aguirre as a witness to the Púnica trial for the 2011 elections
The former Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre has not finally been put on the bench for the Púnica case, although the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office wants her to explain, as a witness, what she knew about box b in the Madrid PP in the trial that will be held by alleged electoral crime in the 2011 regional elections.
On April 3, the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón opened a trial for this matter against the former general secretary of the party in Madrid Francisco Granados, and its manager, Beltrán Gutiérrez.
With his decision, the magistrateHe refused to declare the PP and the 72 regional deputies lucrative participants who were elected in the aforementioned regional elections. They also did not agree to take the former president of the Community of Madrid Ignacio González to the bench for this piece of Púnica.
The Popular accusation exercised by the Association of Democratic Lawyers for Europe I understood that the PP candidates They saw themselves as beneficiaries of excess electoral spending and its concealment, but the judge does not meet this criterion, and he adopted the same conclusion with respect to the Prosecutor’s request to summon the former Madrid presidents Esperanza Aguirre and Ignacio González as lucrative participants.
