2024-05-05 01:51:17
After five days of reflection and silence for the personal harassment who says he suffers from the opposition, which accused him of making fun of the country, the president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sanchezannounced yesterday that he will continue to lead the country.
The president ended the uncertainty that arose when he said that he was giving himself a few days to reflect on his resignation, by criticizing the “harassment and demolition” of the right and the far right to its family after it became known that a judicial investigation had been opened against his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged “corruption.”
Accustomed to the blows of political effectSánchez canceled his public agenda until yesterday, canceling his appearance at rallies during the first weekend of the campaign for the crucial regional elections on May 12 in Catalonia, where the socialists seek to remove the independentists from power.
“We will show the world how democracy is defended, let us put an end to this mud in the only possible way, through collective calm and democratic rejection, beyond acronyms and ideologies, which I am committed to leading firmly as president.” of the government of Spain”, continuous.
In his midday message, Sánchez said that the demonstrations in Madrid and other parts of Spain this weekend had “decisively influenced” in his decision to continue.
Sánchez’s decision provoked expressions of relief among the socialists and harsh criticism from the rest of the parties.
The leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of the conservative Popular Party, described the announcement as “embarrassing” and “ridiculous,” and accused Sánchez of mocking the Spanish.
The announcement will allow him to come out of retirement to join the electoral campaign in Catalonia, a bastion of wishes for him.
“During these five days we have attended a theater crude, outrageous and victimist, that has plunged us collectively into international embarrassment,” lamented the leader of the far-right Vox group, Santiago Abascal.
CLEAN HANDS
The investigation against Sánchez’s wife, under summary secrecy, was opened due to a complaint from the association Clean hands, close to the extreme right.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested that the lawsuit be filed and Manos clean He admitted that he relied exclusively on press information.
According to the digital medium The confidentialthe court investigates Begoña Gómez’s links with the Spanish tourist group Globalia, owner of the airline Air Europa, when the latter was in talks with the government for a bailout during the Covid pandemic, which it finally achieved.
First Minister of Scotland resigns
After ending the coalition government with the environmentalists due to political disagreements, the pro-independence prime minister, Humza Yousaf, He resigned from his position to avoid a double vote of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament.
Yousaf, 39, resigned after a year in which his party, the National Party (SNP), lost support.
Overcoming current political divisions “can only be done by another person at the helm,” he declared, adding that he will remain until his successor is named.
Yousaf was elected leader of the SNP in March 2023, following the resignation of the will express minister Nicola Sturgeon, who spent nine years in power.
His resignation occurs four days before the end of the government coalition between his party and the environmentalists, following a disagreement over policy environmental.
The SNP controls 63 of the 129 seats in the Parliament, But he governs as a minority without his environmental allies, so he looked for new partners, without success. Parliament will have 28 days to find a new prime minister.
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2024-05-05 01:51:17