The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Monday who will continue to lead the Executive after threatening to resign due to the personal harassment he says he suffers from the opposition.
“I have decided to continue, to continue with even more strength if possible”Sánchez said in a message to the country from the Moncloa palace.
This concludes the uncertainty that began on Wednesday when Sánchez He announced that he was giving himself a few days to consider his resignationcriticizing the “harassment and demolition” of his family by the right and the extreme right after the opening of a judicial investigation into his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged “corruption.”
Assiduous of political coups, Sánchez canceled his public agenda until Mondaycanceling his appearance at rallies during the first weekend of campaigning 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’s put an end to this mud in the only possible way, through calm and democratic collective rejection, beyond acronyms and ideologies, which I am committed to leading firmly as president of the Government of Spain,” he continued.
Sánchez’s strong criticism of the opposition
The demonstrations in Madrid and other parts of Spain this weekend have “decisively influenced my reflection”said Sánchez, criticizing the “deliberate hoaxes” spewed by the opposition.
“I assume before you my commitment to work tirelessly, firmly and with serenity for the pending regeneration of our democracy,” added the socialist leader in his message, who had remained totally silent these days, without giving any clues about his decision.
If Sánchez had resigned, Spain would have headed towards new general elections, a year after those of last July.
The investigation against Sánchez’s wife, under summary secrecy, was opened by a complaint from the Manos Médicas association, close to the extreme right.
How the investigation into Pedro Sánchez’s wife continues
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The prosecution requested that the lawsuit be filed and Clean Hands admitted that it was based exclusively on press information.
According to the digital media El Confidencial, the court is investigating the links of Begoña Gómez with the Spanish tourism group Globalia, owner of the airline Air Europa, when the latter was in talks with the government for a bailout during the covid-19 pandemic, which it finally achieved.
In his letter to the citizens released on Wednesday, Sánchez, who governs with the extreme left and the support of Basque and Catalan nationalist and independence parties, repudiated the “complaints that are as scandalous as they are false,” which in his opinion emanate from a campaign carried out carried out by “right-wing and ultra-right interests (…) that do not accept the verdict of the polls.”
Is a “harassment and demolition strategy”, continued the president, whose measures, such as an amnesty law for independentists who participated in the attempted secession of Catalonia in 2017, have collided with frontal rejection from the right-wing opposition.
The conservative Popular Party, the first opposition party, has ridiculed Sánchez’s decision to consider his resignation and assures that it is pure political tactics to victimize himself and regroup his ranks.
A head of government “cannot put on a show as a teenager so that they come after him telling him not to leave and not to get angry,” the leader of the PP ironically said on Thursday. Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The socialist “already represents the past” and “there will be no epic in the resignation, nor will there be heroism in the resistance” if he remains in power, Feijóo stated on Sunday, in a reference to Sánchez’s book “Manuel of Resistance.”
Source: Ambito
