The former minister assures that he will support the amnesty law for political prisoners
José Luis Ábalos, the former Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, declared this Wednesday that he will continue to support the government of Pedro Sánchez from his new position as deputy of the Mixed Group in Congress. Likewise, he has affirmed that he will vote in favor of the amnesty law for those accused in the process. “Now the discipline is set by me”, but “I don’t intend to be an obstacle for the majority government in Congress and I will be guided by the voting guidelines of the PSOE”, he emphasized in interviews with RAC1 and Catalunya Ràdio. “The government will have my support and my vote without a doubt. I will continue to defend what I believe and I will continue to strive to prevent the ultra-right and the extremist right from growing. I will be there,” he added.
The former minister denies having benefited financially from his political career
On the other hand, he has denied that he has profited “in any case” from his time in politics, that his life is “very clean” and that he has less wealth than when he was a minister. “There has been no patrimonial increase in my case, rather a decrease”, he reiterated before saying that his departure from the Spanish government has nothing to do with the ‘Koldo case’.
The former minister explains the reasons why he does not leave the seat
Asked for the reasons why he does not leave the seat, as requested by the PSOE leadership this Monday, Ábalos said that he is not doing it so as not to leave “through the back door” after so many years. “I would be dead in life, I would be treated like a stinker and no one would appreciate this gesture that some claim is great”, he pointed out. “At my age two things can happen: not giving up or falling. At the moment I choose not to give up”, he said considering that he thought he would die in the ranks of the PSOE, a party that temporarily suspended him from militancy yesterday .
