After just over seven o’clock in the afternoon of April 24, 2024, the president of the government surprised a country. Pedro Sánchez had just published on social networks a letter to the citizenship of something of more than three folios that included an unusual situation: taking five days of reflection to see if he continued, or not, in front of the Executive. A few days ago, Judge Peinado had opened proceedings against his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged influence peddling after a complaint of clean hands.
“I am urgent to answer the question of whether it is worth itdespite the mud in which the right and the ultra -right intends to convert politics, “Sanchez reflected in his text in which he said he needed to” stop and reflect “to know” what way to take. ” They arrived even in the government’s own.
during those five mornings and five nights, the militancy of his game was mobilized. Acts, messages of “Pedro, stay”, demonstrations at the headquarters of the party on Ferraz Street in Madrid, and even a demonstration with thousands of people who culminated before the Congress of Deputies. And for them a culprit of the situation: the “bulos” and the “mud” created by the “right and ultra -right”.
From Ferraz, the Vice President and minister of FinanceMaría Jesús Montero, encouraged the protesters to the shout of “Vamos Pedro” and moving the fist high those days. Also the then third vice president, Teresa Ribera, danced to the rhythm of “stay” of Quevedo (“stay / that the nights without you hurt”) or the “Pedro” by Raffaella Carra (“Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, PE! The best of all Santa Fe … “). To those dances and harangues were followed by the shouts of” it is worth it “or” will not pass “of the protesters in some more typical scenes of the great phenomena fans of mass and the stars of the rock than of politics.
“You have to support him”, “It’s not easy”, “They have touched him at his weak point,” said Transport Minister Oscar Puente During those five days. “He will make the best decision,” said Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
Meanwhilethe Opposition watched stunned What happened. Vox criticized his “victimism,” the PP taught him the exit door, but he did not trust his decision and accused him of “abandoning his obligations” when he canceled his agenda during the five days and crossed out “unacceptable frivolity” the decision.
“You take five days to think about yourself and have been doing the same for five years. Enough, no Spanish can abandon their obligations for their own interest, their punctual convenience or for avoiding their responsibilities. Much less can do it, the one who holds the presidency of the Government,” criticized then the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Y After five days of suspense, the final decision arrived. Without any filtration, advancing the final verdict by surprise one hour and surrounded by the most absolute uncertainty, he gave an appearance without questions on the stairs of La Moncloa.
“I have decided to continue, with more strength if possible,” he warned in a short and concise message in which he promised to fight “the mud” and the “toxic practices” that had taken him to make this decision. “This is not a point and followed, it is a point and apart. I guarantee it,” he said firm before the camera.
“Those communication pseudomedians linked to the extreme right involve a very serious problem to address,” he continued for an act then erect as the person who had to “lead this strategy and protect democracy.”
A year later the Begoña case continues
Now, A year later, of those powders, these sludge. That promise resulted in the call Action Plan for Democracy which presented in July 2024 at the Congress of Deputies. It collected 31 measures to fight against “misinformation and bulos” and improve the transparency of the media, among other things. However, and although it was approved in September, the 80% of the measures have not been applied and only seven points of the plan have been launched.
The PSOE has also registered at this time a proposal of law to limit the popular accusation and expand the assumptions in which judges can be challenged and prevent judicial processes based on information reflected in the press.
But in parallel, during this year, the Begoña Gómez case has continued advancing. Although there is still no sentence and the judge Hairstylethe case instructor, It still does not find conclusive evidence. Even the same hairstyle has called in these 365 days to declare Sánchez himself and attended Poncloa to take a statement last summer. A week ago he repeated the operation for the same, but this time with the Minister of Presidency, Félix Bolaños.
In addition, the Research on figures from your environment has not ceased and another court investigates a possible irregular hiring of his brother in the Diputación de Badajoz. Along with this, the Koldo case does not stop climbing And the figure of what was his number two to 2021, former transport minister José Luis Ábalos, is more questioned than ever after being formally investigated by the Supreme Court for his alleged role in the plot.
A year later, weather and judicial situations have not less And political tension, far from lowering, remains at maximum. Nothingor practically nothing, it seems that there is changed on the political board since the “reflection” of Sánchez’s five days in April 2024 compared to 2025. In any casethat the covers of our country’s newspapers now open them Death of a Pope that in April of last year he encouraged in these same dates to counteract the “incivility of the confrontation.”
