On Wednesday a scandal in Spain with President Pedro Sánchez after a court launched a corporate corruption investigation into his wife’s private businesses, Begoña Gómez. After this, the president wrote on his social networks that he would take a few days to “reflect” on his continuity in officesomething that unleashed strong criticism from the opposition.
“I need to stop and reflect,” wrote the spanish president in a letter shared on his social network account give up this high honor,” he added.
Pedro Sánchez and the scandal in Spain
The president of the Spanish Government decided to withdraw from his public duties for a few days to decide whether he wants to remain President after a Spanish court said it was launching a preliminary investigation into accusations of influence peddling and business corruption against his wife.
Also, the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party indicated that he would announce his decision on his continuity in office on Monday April 29.
For its part, the court investigating Gómez did not provide more details, since the case is closed and is in an initial phase. It began following a complaint filed by the anti-corruption group Clean handswhose leader is linked to the extreme right.
The group has accused Gómez of receive favors of the airline Air Europa and its Spanish holding company Globalia during her time as director of a research center on Africa at the IE business school until 2022, according to a seven-page document published by the radio station Cadena Ser in its Web page.
Pedro Sánchez referred to the accusations and said that his wife had not committed any crime and that he would cooperate with the investigation and He would defend his innocence.
Furthermore, the president targeted the opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóoof the Popular Party (PP) already Santiago Abascalfrom the extreme right party Voxwhom he accused of having collaborated in the dissemination of the accusations against Gómez.
Given this, Feijóo responded and said that Sánchez wanted to blame the opposition parties of the judges’ activities. “The President of the Government has a judicial problem and is trying to transfer to the political parties the responsibility of making an opposition that is, in my opinion, sensible,” he said.
Spain: criticism from the opposition after Pedro Sánchez’s decision
After Sánchez announced that he would evaluate the possibility of resigning from his position, the leader of the main Spanish opposition party accused him of put on a “show” in the eyes of the world. For Feijóo, the attitude that the president took is a “international embarrassment“because of how it leaves “the dignity of the institution, the presidency of the Government, the stability of the Spanish institutions.”
Before the press, the leader of the Popular Party (PP) stated that the socialist leader “has launched a political survival operation” to “mobilize people under compassion, because can no longer do it due to its management“.
Finally, Feijóo referred to the days in which Sánchez will step away from his duties to “reflect” and offered harsh criticism: “He takes 5 days to think about himself and in my opinion he has been doing that for 5 years: thinking about himself Enough already, “No Spaniard can abandon his obligations for his own convenience.”.
Source: Ambito
