Pedro Sánchez considers resigning

Madrid. The president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, announced yesterday in a surprising way that he is analyzing his possible resignation, and described it as fake the accusations of influence peddling and corruption for which the justice system decided to investigate his wife, Begoña Gómez, after a lawsuit filed by the Manos Liminas organization, which has been characterized by filing lawsuits mainly for right-wing causes.

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 resign from this high honor.said Sánchez in an open letter addressed to the public and published on his social networks, after a parliamentary session in which both the right-wing Popular Party (PP) and the far-right Vox questioned his responsibility for the actions of his wife, who According to journalistic versions, he used his position to do personal business and help related businessmen with bailouts for which he used public funds.

The preliminary investigation into Begoña Gómez for suspicions of influence peddling and corruption was opened on April 16, following a complaint from Manos Liminas, a group close to the extreme right, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid announced yesterday.

The proceedings are secretthe court cut short.

Sánchez, 52, re-elected by Parliament last November, reported that next Monday he will announce his decision.

The president of the Spanish government rejected the complaint which, in his opinion, is based on facts non-existent.

I’m not naive. I am aware that they are denouncing Begoña not because she has done something illegal, but because she is my wife.wrote.

It is an operation of harassment and demolition by land, sea and air, to make me weaken politically and personally by attacking my wife. This strategy has been perpetrated for months, therefore, I am not surprised by the overacting of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the Vox leader, 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.

The court’s decision was known after the digital media El Confidencial reported that investigators were examining Gómez’s links with the Spanish tourism group Globalia, owner of the airline Air Europa, when the latter was in talks with the government to obtain a rescue during the covid-19 pandemic.

Then, Gómez directed the IE Africa Center, a foundation related to the Instituto de Empresa (IE) business school, a position he left in 2022.

El Confidencial published that the IE Africa Center signed a sponsorship agreement with Globalia in 2020 and that the wife of the head of government “met privately with the CEO of the holding tourist, Javier Hidalgo, in the company offices.”

In November 2020, the Sánchez government offered an aid line of 475 million euros to Air Europa, arising from a fund of 10 billion euros intended to support strategic companies in difficulties due to the pandemic.

The Spanish company was the first of many others to benefit from that fund.