2024-04-27 23:46:45
The socialist Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government of Spainsurprisingly announced this Wednesday that he is considering resigning and will announce his decision on Monday, due to a judicial investigation into his wife for alleged “corruption.”
“I need to stop and reflect” about “whether I should continue as head of the government or renounce this high honor,” the president said in a letter to citizens published on the social network X.
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Sánchez, in power since 2018, indicated that he will appear “before the media (…) next Monday, April 29” to announce his decision, and until then he canceled his public agenda.
The preliminary investigation into his wife, Begoña Gómez, for suspicions of influence peddling and corruption, was opened on April 16 following a complaint from Manos Cleans, with a group close to the extreme right, as announced this Wednesday by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid.
The proceedings are “secret”, indicated the Court
Sánchez, 52 years old, re-elected by Congress in Novemberdefended his wife’s innocence and stated that the complaint is part of a “strategy of harassment and demolition” against him by “media with a marked right-wing and ultra-right orientation.”
“I’m not naive. I am aware that they denounce Begoña not because I have done something illegal (…), but because she is my wife,” Sánchez wrote.
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“Begoña will defend her honorability and will collaborate with Justice in everything required to clarify some issues.” facts as scandalous in appearance, as non-existent“he added.
The court’s decision was known after the digital media El Confidencial revealed that the investigators They examined Gómez’s links with private companies who ended up receiving funds and public contracts from the government.
El Confidencial affirms that the investigation is related to Gómez’s alleged links with the Spanish tourist group Globaliaowner of the airline Air Europa, which was in talks with the government to obtain a rescue for the company, seriously affected by the drop in air traffic since the coronavirus pandemic.
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— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) April 24, 2024
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2024-04-27 23:46:45