2024-05-01 04:01:15
Due to a judicial investigation into his wife for alleged “corruption”, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government of Spainsurprisingly announced yesterday that it is evaluating give up y will communicate his decision next Monday.
“I need to stop and reflect” on “whether I should continue as head of the government or renounce this high honor,” he said in a published letter to citizens. X.
Sánchez, in power since 2018, indicated that he will appear “before the media” to make his decision known, and canceled his public agenda.
The preliminary investigation into his wife, Begoña Gomez, due to suspicions of influence peddling and corruption, it was opened on April 16 following a complaint from Manos Médicas, a group close to the extreme right, according to the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid. The proceedings are “secret,” indicated the Cut.
Sánchez, 52 years old, re-elected by Congress In November, he defended his wife’s innocence and stated that the complaint It is a “strategy of harassment and demolition” against “media with a marked right-wing and ultra-right orientation.”
The court’s decision was known after The confidential revealed that investigators were examining Gómez’s ties to private companies that ended up receiving funds and public contracts from the government.
The information stated that the investigation is related to Gómez’s alleged links with the Spanish tourism group Globalia, owner of the airline Air Europa, which was in talks with the government to obtain a rescue for the company, seriously affected by the Covid pandemic. /24 HOURS
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