Struck Sanchez resists the privilege of resignation

Seven years after taking office by overthrowing conservatives, destroyed by corruption by the government, Pedro Sanchez is fighting for his political life against the background of investigations into alleged grafting in his socialist party (PSOE).

On June 12, Prime Minister with the face of ashes apologized to the Spaniards After the audio collected by the investigators of the civil security, he became public and appeared to show the secretary of Psoe, Santos Cherdan, discussing commissions paid by companies in exchange for public contracts.

Sanchez himself was not directly involved, but the socialist leader who came to power, promising to clean the politics, is now facing calls to resign from an invigorated opposition.

Kerdan, who was party number three, resigned from Psoe and withdrew as a member of parliament. He must appear before the Supreme Court on June 25. He maintains that he has never committed a crime, nor is he implicit in one.

The committee investigation is part of a continuing probe that has already been involved in Jose Luis Ambolos, a former PSOE secretary and Minister of Transport. A third party involved is Caldo Garcia, Abalos Advisor. Both men presented with Cerdán in the recently exposed audio. All three say they did nothing wrong.

The investigation of ábalos, which began last year, was harmful to the government, but its exit from the Cabinet and Secretary of Psoe in 2021 set a distance between it and Sanchez. However, Cerdán’s reflection is more professional.

In recent months, Sanchez has repeatedly defended him before the right-wing media that he was under investigation, and the Prime Minister even accused the opposition of “slandering honest people” when he asked him about Cherdan’s activities last month.

The party secretary of the northern region of Navara was a trusted confidant of the Prime Minister, playing a decisive role, for example, to negotiate the support of Catalan nationalists to allow the formation of a new government in 2023.

Although he admitted that “he should not trust” to Cherdan, Sanchez insists that he would see the legislature, which should be completed in 2027.

In a letter to Psoe members, he apologized again as he doubled.

“There are many problems that affect the life of the majority – healthcare, housing, pensions, jobs, combat climate change and equality protection – and for which it is worth fighting,” he writes. “Challenges that are not resolved with titles or linings.”

However, the opposition presented the investigation as symptomatic for corrupt mode, pointing to other probes affecting Sanchez and his circle.

The judge is investigating the wife of the Prime Minister, Begona Gomez, for possible bumps in the business – and his music brother David must go for a test for suspected influence by holding a public post in the southwestern city of Badahoz. In the meantime, Prosecutor General Alvaro Garcia Ortiz is also likely to face a lawsuit to detect confidential details of the tax avoidance. All three refuse misconduct.

Sanchez and his supporters have thrown these three cases as part of a campaign organized by the Conservative People’s Party (PP), the far right VOX, the right media and the facilities in the judicial system. A number of forensic experts have expressed a surprise of the diligence with which the investigations were conducted.

In a tumultuous parliamentary session this week, the opposition MPs chanted Dimision (resigned) to the Prime Minister, and Alberto Nunes Feihoo, the leader of the PP, accused him of being a “wolf who led a corrupt package”.

Paco Kamas, head of public opinion in Spain about the election firm IPSOS, sees Sanchez’s resignation as a “political suicide” for his party, because this would almost certainly provoke elections that would allow the PP to form a government, probably with the support of VOX.

“The general trend is currently a demobilized electorate on the left, especially for the Socialist Party and a huge mobilization of voters on the right, which takes advantage of the dissatisfaction with the government,” Kamas said.

Even the socialist president of the Castile-La Mancha region, Emiliano Garcia, warned that there was “no decent outcome” for Psoe.

However, while Sanchez can preserve his fragile parliamentary majority of left and nationalist parties together, there is a little opposition to take it down.

To this end, the Prime Minister fiercely tries to reassure these allies, many of whom have expressed outrage at the scandal with Cherdan-abalos. Kamas believes that their persuasion to support a 2026 budget can be a way to buy a time.

Nevertheless, such plans can be left in tears, they were more explosive revelations to appear as many of the fear of the Socialist Party.

Similar concerns will play in Sanchez’s mind as he heads to the NATO summit in The Hague.

Usually a sure presence on the international scene, he will arrive with serious doubts about his future and under increasing pressure to increase Spain’s defense costs.

Although his government has promised to increase military spending to 2% of economic production this year, it resists US and NATO leadership to raise it further. Sanchez now refused to accept a target of 5% of GDP for military expenses, reference He would not only be unreasonable but also counterproductive. “