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06-23-2016, 09:41 AM
MADRID: Spain’s interior minister faced calls to resign on Wednesday over a conversation leaked four days before elections in which he and an anti-fraud official appear to discuss ways to incriminate his political rivals.
In the conversation published by online left-wing daily Publico, Jorge Fernandez Diaz and the head of Catalonia’s anti-fraud ****** discuss possible leads or probes that could be launched against pro-independence politicians in the region.
With general elections looming on Sunday, the allegations unleashed a political firestorm. Police unions and several rivals of Fernandez Diaz’s conservative Popular Party (PP) have demanded that he quit.
“We have an interior minister, who should be protecting us all, apparently using his post to investigate political rivals,” Pablo Iglesias, head of the anti-austerity Podemos party, told public broadcaster TVE.
“I think this should trigger an immediate resignation.”
Fernandez Diaz slammed the leak as a “conspiracy”.
But he ack**wledged that the meeting, which dates back to 2014, had taken place.
“I remember having had this meeting, but as for the content of these conversations, I remember the general gist, which was to meet a magistrate that heads up the anti-fraud ****** of the regional government, whose mission is to fight fraud and corruption,” he told Spanish radio.
“To claim that an interior minister is conspiring against members of Catalonia’s government is surreal,” he said, adding police had been asked to investigate exactly how the conversation was recorded and leaked.
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In the conversation published by online left-wing daily Publico, Jorge Fernandez Diaz and the head of Catalonia’s anti-fraud ****** discuss possible leads or probes that could be launched against pro-independence politicians in the region.
With general elections looming on Sunday, the allegations unleashed a political firestorm. Police unions and several rivals of Fernandez Diaz’s conservative Popular Party (PP) have demanded that he quit.
“We have an interior minister, who should be protecting us all, apparently using his post to investigate political rivals,” Pablo Iglesias, head of the anti-austerity Podemos party, told public broadcaster TVE.
“I think this should trigger an immediate resignation.”
Fernandez Diaz slammed the leak as a “conspiracy”.
But he ack**wledged that the meeting, which dates back to 2014, had taken place.
“I remember having had this meeting, but as for the content of these conversations, I remember the general gist, which was to meet a magistrate that heads up the anti-fraud ****** of the regional government, whose mission is to fight fraud and corruption,” he told Spanish radio.
“To claim that an interior minister is conspiring against members of Catalonia’s government is surreal,” he said, adding police had been asked to investigate exactly how the conversation was recorded and leaked.
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