The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has compared the attitude of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with that of the former president of the United States Donald Trump, after the last letter he published yesterday to the citizens, he has asked not to enter his “spiral” and has insisted on the “ethically unacceptable” behavior of Begoña Gómez, the president’s wife. “Did you see Trump’s reaction to the conviction? Well, it is the same thing that the Government is saying and it is more or less the same thing that Pedro Sánchez is processing in his letter, that there is a kind of conspiracy against him, that this conspiracy is part of justice and that this is affecting democracy in Spain,” the councilor expressed to journalists from the Casa de la Panadería in the Plaza Mayor. He considers that Sánchez’s reasoning is “quite similar” to Trump’s and has expressed concern that citizens could fall into the “spiral of delegitimizing judges” and ensure that Begoña Gómez’s summons was made to “influence the elections”. “I would ask Pedro Sánchez not to copy behaviors that we are seeing in other places in this case (…) Let’s see if he is copying certain speeches that in my opinion are dangerous for democracy. Let’s see if whoever is there with ‘Trumpism’ is precisely Pedro Sánchez,” he stated. Along these lines, he has stressed that judicial proceedings must be respected and, to this end, the Government must not “use the table of the Council of Ministers to defend Begoña Gómez.” “What the Government spokesperson (Pilar Alegría) did yesterday was to defend Begoña Gómez, as far as I know she is not part of the Government, perhaps I am wrong, but as far as I know she is not part of the Government,” Martínez-Almeida stressed. , while asking “who is the Government spokesperson to say that ‘there is nothing here’.” Along the same lines, the mayor of the capital has defended that it is proven that the president’s wife, “without having a degree, obtains an extraordinary professorship at the Complutense, and has been obtaining funds from companies that are under the supervision and regulation of her husband”, in addition to referring again to her meeting with the president of Indra. “For me, that is certainly reason for Pedro Sánchez’s resignation, I have no doubt, because there is an evident confusion, apart from the general reproach, it is inadmissible from an ethical and political point of view,” he stated.
