The Basque People's Party (PP) is asking the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) for "explanations" for the links between people it trusts and the "Cerdán plot."

Coinciding with the PP leadership's attempt to reach out to the PNV, the Popular Party leader in the Basque Country, Javier de Andrés, is demanding that the nationalists explain the business dealings of "men they trust" with the corruption network. He specifically cites Iñaki Alzaga, president of Nortegás and Grupo Noticias.

De Andrés indicated this Wednesday in Vitoria that businessman close to the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), Iñaki Alzaga, is implicated in the corruption scheme led by former PSOE Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán.

The Popular Party leader held a press conference just one day after the new PP secretary general, Miguel Tellado, called the PNV to find out if the nationalists continued to support Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. According to him, the answer was yes.

Andrés has echoed information published in some digital media about the relationship between Iñaki Alzaga, president of Nortegás—in which the Basque Government holds a 12% stake—and of the Noticias Group—close to the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)—and Basque businessman Antxon Egurrola, Cerdán's "front man," according to the PP.

According to this information, Egurrola and Alzaga are partners in the company Alegure, of which Alzaga owns 4% and which was awarded the contract for a school for 2.6 million euros.

For De Andrés, Alzaga is a businessman "with the utmost confidence" of the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), as evidenced by his positions. "What was he doing in those companies linked to Cerdán? What's Alzaga doing in the middle of Cerdán's plot?" De Andrés asked, saying he wasn't afraid of the PNV's reaction to this request for explanations:

"If the PNV isn't bothered by the fact that its counterpart in the PSOE (Cerdán) is in prison, why would it be bothered by me asking for explanations?" he concluded.

Following these statements, the PNV criticized the PP for "wanting to open a line of communication one day and blowing up all the bridges the next," while insisting that, "no matter how many times it's said, Cerdán was not the PNV's interlocutor."