Madrid. The president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, decided to cancel all the activities on his agenda starting today and until next Monday to reflect on whether “it is worth it” to continue in office or whether, on the contrary, to resign. . The trigger for this decision, adopted by surprise and made known through an open letter to citizens on their social networks, was the opening of a judicial investigation against his wife, Begoña Gómez, accused of drug trafficking crimes. influence and corruption.
“I need to stop and reflect. Is all this worth it? Sincerely I dont know. “I urgently need to answer the question of whether I should continue as head of the Government or renounce this high honor,” Sánchez said in the letter, after a parliamentary session in which both the right-wing Popular Party (PP) and the far-right Vox They questioned his responsibility in the actions of his wife, who according to a series of journalistic investigations used her position for personal businesses and to help related businessmen with bailouts with public funds.
In the opinion of the Spanish president, both the PP and the PSOE activated “the mud machine”, crossing “all the red lines” by attacking their family environment in the political struggle. And even more so when these complaints are already in court, after a criminal complaint filed by the far-right union Manos Médicas, which has also been a popular accusation in other cases of alleged political corruption, such as that of the daughter and son-in-law of the Rey, Cristina de Borbón and Iñaki Urdangarín.
In his letter, Pedro Sánchez accuses PP and Vox of promoting a strategy of “harassment” against him: “This is an operation of harassment and demolition by land, sea and air, to try to make me faint politically and socially. staff attacking my wife. This strategy of harassment and demolition has been going on for months. Therefore, I am not surprised by the overperformance of Mr. (Alberto Núñez) Feijóo and Mr. (Santiago) Abascal. In this outrage as serious as it is crude, both are necessary collaborators with a far-right digital galaxy and the Clean Hands organization. In fact, it was Mr. Feijóo who reported the case to the Conflict of Interest Office, asking for me to be disqualified from holding public office for 5 to 10 years. The complaint was filed twice by said body, whose officials were subsequently disqualified by the leadership of the PP and Vox. Next, they exploited their conservative majority in the Senate, promoting an investigative commission to, as they say, clarify the facts related to this matter. Logically, the case was missing. It is the step they have just taken.”
Sánchez’s decision caused a political whirlwind in Spain, which is in suspense over what its president decides in the coming days.
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– 2024-04-30 22:27:58
