He said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez canceled his schedule on Wednesday and will decide by Monday whether to continue in office, following a judicial investigation into women. “I need to stop and reflect. I urgently need to answer the question of whether it is worth it, despite the quagmire into which the right and far-right want to turn politics. Whether I should continue to lead the government or give up this enormous honor,” Pedro wrote. Sanchez, in a four-page text he posted on the social network X.
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) added that he had decided to cancel the entire public agenda for the next few days “to be able to think and decide which path to follow” and that he would make a statement to the media after that. Monday to reveal his decision.
A court in Madrid confirmed today the opening of a “preliminary investigation” targeting Pedro Sanchez’s wife, Begonia Gomez, on charges of influence peddling and corruption, following a complaint from the “Mause Limpas” association, which is considered close to the Spanish far right.
According to the online newspaper El Confidencial, there are alleged links between Begonia Gomez and private companies, such as the airline Air Europe, which received public support during the pandemic crisis or signed contracts with the state when Sánchez was already prime minister. In the text released today, Pedro Sanchez said that “lies” were at stake and that Begonia Gomez “will defend her honor and cooperate with justice in everything that is asked of her.”
The Spanish Prime Minister adds that these false accusations came from Internet pages linked to the right and the extreme right and were fueled by the Popular Party and Vox, which took them into public and political debate and with complaints in the body that evaluates them. Conflicts of interest for those holding state positions.
“It is an operation of harassment and destruction by land, sea and air, to try to weaken me politically and personally, by attacking my wife,” wrote Sanchez, who accuses the Spanish right and far-right of not accepting the results of last year’s elections. Legislative elections.
The People's Party received the largest number of votes in the elections, but did not reach the government, because a “vehicle” made up of eight parties, including some independent parties, returned Sánchez to the position of Prime Minister. “They realized that a political attack would not be enough, and now they have crossed the line of respecting the family life of the head of government and attacking his personal life,” Sanchez wrote today in the text published in X, referring to PP and Vox.
Sanchez says he is the victim of an “unprecedented attack” and “so serious” that he needs to “stop and think” with his wife, stressing that despite the caricature painted of him by his opponents, he has never been imprisoned in prison. position, but “to duty, political commitment and public service.”
